Knelling the spot where Gallic soil defiled

Showed her sons' valour as a frenzied child



In arms of the mailed man.

Word that her mind must bear, her heart put under ban,



Lest burst it: unto her eyes a ghost,

Incredible though manifest: a scene



Stamped with her new Saint's name: and all his host

A wattled flock the foeman's dogs between!



VII

Mark where a credible ghost pulls bridle to view that bare



Corpse of a field still reddening cloud, and alive in its throes

Beneath her Purgatorial Saint's evocative stare:



Brand on his name, the gulf of his glory, his Legend's close.

A lustreless Phosphor heading for daybeam Night's dead-born,



His underworld eyeballs grip the cast of the land for a fray

Expugnant; swift up the heights, with the Victor's instinctive scorn



Of the trapped below, he rides; he beholds, and a two-fold grey,

Even as the misty sun growing moon that a frost enrings,



Is shroud on the shrouded; he knows him there in the helmeted ranks.

The golden eagles flap lame wings,



The black double-headed are round their flanks.

He is there in midst of the pupils he harried to brains awake, trod



into union; lo,

These are his Epic's tutored Dardans, yon that Rhapsode's Achaeans



to know.

Nor is aught of an equipollent conflict seen, nor the weaker's



flashed device;

Headless is offered a breast to beaks deliberate, formal, assured,



precise.

Ruled by the mathematician's hand, they solve their problem, as on a



slate.

This is the ground foremarked, and the day; their leader modestly



hazarded date.

His helmeted ranks might be draggers of pools or reapers of plains



for the warrior's guile

Displayed; they haul, they rend, as in some orderly office



mercantile.

And a timed artillery speaks full-mouthed on a stuttering feeble



reduced to nought.

Can it be France, an army of France, tricked, netted, convulsive,



all writhen caught?

Arterial blood of an army's heart outpoured the Grey Observer sees:



A forest of France in thunder comes, like a landslide hurled off her

Pyrenees.



Torrent and forest ramp, roll, sling on for a charge against iron,

reason, Fate;



It is gapped through the mass midway, bare ribs and dust ere the

helmeted feel its weight.



So the blue billow white-plumed is plunged upon shingle to screaming

withdrawal, but snatched,



Waved is the laureleternal yielded by Death o'er the waste of brave

men outmatched.



The France of the fury was there, the thing he had wielded, whose

honour was dearer than life;



The Prussia despised, the harried, the trodden, was here; his pupil,

the scholar in strife.



He hated to heel, in a spasm of will,

From sleep or debate, a mannikin squire



With head of a merlin hawk and quill

Acrow on an ear. At him rained fire



From a blast of eyeballs hotter than speech,

To say what a deadlypoison stuffed



The France here laid in her bloody ditch,

Through the Legend passing human puffed.



Credible ghost of the field which from him descends,

Each dark anniversary day will its father return,



Haling his shadow to spy where the Legend ends,

That penman trumpeter's part in the wreck discern.



There, with the cup it presents at her lips, she stands,

France, with her future staked on the word it may pledge.



The vengeance urged of desire a reserve countermands;

The patience clasped totters hard on the precipice edge.

• conscience [´kɔnʃəns] n.良心；道德心 (初中英语单词)


• welcome [´welkəm] a.受欢迎的；可喜的 (初中英语单词)


• cheerful [´tʃiəful] a.快乐的；高兴的 (初中英语单词)


• breeze [bri:z] n.微风；不费力的事 (初中英语单词)


• robber [´rɔbə] n.强盗；盗贼 (初中英语单词)


• backward [´bækwəd] ad.向后 a.向后的 (初中英语单词)


• embrace [im´breis] vt.&n.拥抱；采纳；信奉 (初中英语单词)


• funeral [´fju:nərəl] n.葬礼，丧葬；困难 (初中英语单词)


• stress [stres] n.强调；压力 vt.强调 (初中英语单词)


• forehead [´fɔrid] n.额，前部 (初中英语单词)


• permanent [´pə:mənənt] a.永久的；不变的 (初中英语单词)


• miracle [´mirəkl] n.奇迹；令人惊奇的 (初中英语单词)


• warmth [wɔ:mθ] n.温暖；热情；激动 (初中英语单词)


• warrior [´wɔriə] n.勇士，战士 (初中英语单词)


• clutch [klʌtʃ] v.抓住 n.爪子；控制 (初中英语单词)


• imagination [i,mædʒi´neiʃən] n.想象(力) (初中英语单词)


• foreigner [´fɔrinə] n.外国人 (初中英语单词)


• knowing [´nəuiŋ] a.会意的，心照不宣的 (初中英语单词)


• thirst [θə:st] n.渴，口渴；渴望 (初中英语单词)


• reality [ri´æliti] n.现实(性)；真实；逼真 (初中英语单词)


• worship [´wə:ʃip] n.&v.崇拜；敬仰 (初中英语单词)


• measure [´meʒə] n.量度；范围 vt.测量 (初中英语单词)


• banner [´bænə] n.旗(帜)；头号标题 (初中英语单词)


• frozen [´frəuzn] freeze 的过去分词 (初中英语单词)


• conflict [´kɔnflikt, kən´flikt] n.&vi.战斗；抵触 (初中英语单词)


• formal [´fɔ:məl] a.正式的；外表的 (初中英语单词)


• orderly [´ɔ:dəli] a.整洁的 n.勤务兵 (初中英语单词)


• observer [əb´zə:və] n.遵守者；观察员 (初中英语单词)


• thunder [´θʌndə] n.雷 vi.打雷 vt.吼出 (初中英语单词)


• charge [tʃɑ:dʒ] v.收费；冲锋 n.费用 (初中英语单词)


• eternal [i´tə:nəl] a.永远的；永恒的 (初中英语单词)


• scholar [´skɔlə, ´skɑ-] n.学者；奖学金获得者 (初中英语单词)


• debate [di´beit] n.&v.讨论，辩论 (初中英语单词)


• deadly [´dedli] a.致命的 ad.死一般地 (初中英语单词)


• poison [´pɔizən] n.毒物 v.毒害 a.有毒的 (初中英语单词)


• bloody [´blʌdi] a.(流)血的；血腥的 (初中英语单词)


• patience [´peiʃəns] n.忍耐(力)；耐心；坚韧 (初中英语单词)


• vengeance [´vendʒəns] n.报复，复仇 (高中英语单词)


• cripple [´kripəl] n.跛子 vt.使残疾 (高中英语单词)


• hanging [´hæŋiŋ] n.绞刑 a.悬挂着的 (高中英语单词)


• radiant [´reidiənt] a.发光的 n.光源(体) (高中英语单词)


• summit [´sʌmit] n.顶(点)；绝顶 (高中英语单词)


• celestial [si´lestiəl] a.天空的，天的 (高中英语单词)


• inward [´inwəd] a.向内的；心灵上的 (高中英语单词)


• external [ik´stə:nəl] a.外部的；外面的 (高中英语单词)


• trumpet [´trʌmpit] n.喇叭；小号 (高中英语单词)


• allegiance [ə´li:dʒəns] n.忠诚，效忠 (高中英语单词)


• tyrant [´taiərənt] n.暴君；霸主；专制君主 (高中英语单词)


• virgin [´və:dʒin] a.处女(般)的 n.处女 (高中英语单词)


• solely [´səulli] ad.唯一；单独；完全 (高中英语单词)


• dazzle [´dæz(ə)l] vt.使茫然 n.炫耀 (高中英语单词)


• barrier [´bæriə] n.栅栏；屏障；障碍 (高中英语单词)


• mantle [´mæntl] n.斗蓬 v.覆盖；笼罩 (高中英语单词)


• manifest [´mænifest] a.明显的 v.表明 (高中英语单词)


• bridle [´braidl] n.(马)笼头；束缚 (高中英语单词)


• deliberate [di´libəreit] a.慎重的；故意的 (高中英语单词)


• artillery [ɑ:´tiləri] n.炮兵部队 (高中英语单词)


• laurel [´lɔrəl] n.月桂树(叶)；桂冠 (高中英语单词)


• hearken [´hɑ:kən] vi.听 (英语四级单词)


• wondrous [´wʌndrəs] a.极好的 ad.惊人地 (英语四级单词)


• trophy [´trəufi] n.战利品；奖品 (英语四级单词)


• essence [´esəns] n.本质；要素；精华 (英语四级单词)


• righteous [´raitʃəs] a.正直的；正当的 (英语四级单词)


• billow [´biləu] n.巨浪 v.(使)翻腾 (英语四级单词)


• valour [´vælə] n.英勇，勇猛 (英语四级单词)


• shroud [ʃraud] n.尸衣；覆盖物；罩 (英语四级单词)


• midway [,mid´wei] n.中途 ad.&a.中途(的) (英语四级单词)


• shingle [´ʃiŋgəl] n.盖屋板；木瓦 (英语四级单词)


• anniversary [,æni´və:səri] n.周年纪念(日) (英语四级单词)


• precipice [´presipis] n.悬崖；危急的处境 (英语四级单词)


• festive [´festiv] a.喜庆的，欢乐的 (英语六级单词)


• exultation [egzʌl´teiʃən] n.欢腾，狂欢 (英语六级单词)


• abandonment [ə´bændənmənt] n.抛弃；放纵 (英语六级单词)


• treble [´trebəl] a.&n.三倍(重)的 (英语六级单词)


• tremulous [´tremjuləs] a.发抖的；震颤的 (英语六级单词)


• departed [di´pɑ:tid] a.已往的；已故的 (英语六级单词)


• mockery [´mɔkəri] n.嘲笑；笑柄 (英语六级单词)


• underworld [´ʌndəwə:ld] n.阴间；下层社会 (英语六级单词)


• instinctive [in´stiŋktiv] a.本能的，天性的 (英语六级单词)