Ode to the Duke of Wellington, And Other Poems: And Other Poems,
Ode to the Duke of Wellington, And Other Poems: And Other Poems,
Robert Charles Dallas
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Where near the portal's iron gate, With furies leagu'd, begirt with care, Ambition reigns in sceptred state, And wildly shakes her snaky hair. Lo, from her ebon throne she speeds : Mounts, at a bound, her whirling car; To courage bends her sable steeds ; A Fury borne by Rage and War. While all around her frantic crew, Foul midnight horrors widely stand, And smiling fraud in fairest hue j While Carnage lifts her gory brand. Yet, as she wings her baneful flight. On high she rears the golden prize... ; And thron'd in clouds of fairest light, With jewell' d sceptre lures the eyes. Fierce as the whirlwind's rapid rage, She bursts the busy miser's rest ; Yet deigns to seek the needy stage, And wakes to arms a poorer breast. I ON AMBITION. 137 Yon high-born chief, whose glorious name Has stopp'd the course of hostile arms ; Led by her hand, deserting fame, With guilty bosom courts alarms. Fir*d at his call, the gathering throng, In flashing steel and dread array, With blazing banners sweep along, Mid trumpet's clang and charger's neigh.
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