The Vale of Shadows And Other Verses of the Great War
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Here you might see the Dyle glide by, That, ah, that was hut yesterday! Mirroring towers and the houses high, Fair in the light of the Flemish day. Here you might feel, in the Rue Namur, Learning's spirit, of art the lure; Here you list, like a silvery shower, The spell of chimes at the quarter hour; Here you might dream of the far gone days, And the sturdy weavers, with warlike ways; 15 Of French, Bur^indians, Spaniards, — all That threatened the town with their tyrant thrall ; Of counts and d...ukes with their pompous train, And thine olden glory, Louvain, Louvain! How are the glow and glamour gone! That, ah, that teas hut yesterday! What a woeful sight to look upon Under the light of the Flemish day! Down the ages the cry of shame Will ring, and the naming of a name. Scars irreparable, — ghastly scars, — The roar of guns, and the soar of flame Dimming the sun and blurring the stars, 'Twas thus that the later Vandals came. Sacked and slew, in their vengeful ire, And gloried over the glutted pyre.
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