Versos English James Clarence Mangan Avran

English poem

Avran

by (1803–1849)

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Hugh marched forth to the fight—I grieved to see him so depart; And lo! to-night he wanders frozen, rain-drenched, sad, betrayed— But the memory of the limewhite mansions his right hand hath laid In ashes, warms the hero's heart!