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6-7 1912

JOAN OF ARC.

THE SEVENTH BOOK.

STRONG were the English forts, by daily toil
Of thousands rear'd on high, when arrogant
With hop'd-for conquest Salisbury bade rise
The mighty pile, from succour to include
Besieged Orleans. Round the city walls
Stretch'd the wide circle, massy as the fence
Erst by the fearful Roman on the bounds
Of Caledonia rais'd, when soul-enslav'd

Her hireling plunderers fear'd the car-borne chiefs
Who rush'd from Morven down.

Strong battlements

Crested the ample bulwark, on whose top
Secure the charioteer might wheel along.

The frequent buttress at just distance, rose