Ebenezer Elliott Dark Poems
- 1. Plaint
Dark, deep, and cold the current flows
Unto the sea where no wind blows,
Seeking the land which no one knows.
... - 2. Battle Song
Day, like our souls, is fiercely dark;
What then? 'Tis day!
We sleep no more; the cock crows-hark!
To arms! away!
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