Versos English John Hamilton Moore Horror

English poem

Horror

by (1738–1807)

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Hark!—the death-denouncing trumpet sounds The fatal charge, and shouts proclaim the onset, Destruction rushes dreadful to the field, And bathes itself in blood. Havock, let loose, Now, undistinguish'd, rages all around: While ruin, seated on her dreary throne, Sees the plain strew'd, with subjects truly hers, Breathless and cold.