ghizela rowe - scenes in london ii - oxford street - letitia elizabeth landon كلمات أغنية
life in its many shapes was there
the busy and the gay;
faces that seemed too young and fair
to ever know decay
wealth, with its waste, its pomp, and pride
led forth its glittering train;
and poverty’s pale face beside
asked aid, and asked in vain
the shops were filled from many lands
toys, silks, and gems, and flowers;
the patient work of many hands
the hope of many hours
yet, mid life’s myriad shapes around
there was a sigh of death;
there rose a melancholy sound
the bugle’s wailing breath
they played a mournful scottish air
that on its native hill
had caught the notes the night_winds bear
from weeping leaf and rill
’twas strange to hear that sad wild strain
its warning music shed
rising above life’s busy train
in memory of the dead
there came a slow and silent band
in sad procession by:
reversed the musket in each hand
and downcast every eye
they bore the soldier to his grave;
the sympathyzing crowd
divided like a parted wave
by some dark vessel ploughed
a moment, and all sounds were mute
for awe was over all;
you heard the soldier’s measured foot
the bugle’s wailing call
the gloves were laid upon the bier
the helmet and the sword
the drooping war_horse followed near
as he, too, mourned his lord
slowly—i followed too—they led
to where a church arose
and flung a shadow o’er the dead
deep as their own repose
green trees were there—beneath the shade
of one, was made a grave;
and there to his last rest was laid
the weary and the brave
they fired a volley o’er the bed
of an unconscious ear;
the birds sprang fluttering overhead
struck with a sudden fear
all left the ground, the bugles died
away upon the wind;
only the tree’s green branches sighed
o’er him they left behind
again, all filled with light and breath
i passed the crowded street—
oh, great extremes of life and death
how strangely do ye meet!
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