THE SIEGE OP BELGRADE
Addressed to the Admirers of Alliteration and the Advocates of Noisy Numbers. Ardentem Aspicio Atque Arrectus Anribus Astro. — Virgil. An Austrian army, awfully arrayed. Boldly by battery besieged Belgrade. Cossack commanders cannonading come, Dealing destruction* devastating doom. Every endeavor engineers essay, For fame, for fortune fighting—furious fray ! Generals 'gainst generals grapple— gracious God., How honors Heaven heroic hardihood ! Infuriate — indiscriminate m ill — Kinsmen kill kindred, kindred kiuEmen kill. Labor low levels loftiest longest lines, Men march 'mid mounds, 'mid moles, 'mid murderous mines! Now noisy, noxious numbers notice nought Of outward obstacles, opposing ought; Poor patriots !— partly purchased, partly pressed — Quite quaking, quickly "Quarter! quarter!" 'quest; * , Reason returns, religious right redounds; Suwarrow stops such sanguinary sounds. Truce to thee, Turkey !— Triumph to thy train, Unwise, unjust, unmerciful Ukraine! Vanish, vain victory! Vanish, victory vain! Why wish we warfare? — Wherefore welcome were ' Xerxes, Ximinies, Xanthus. Xaviere? Yield, yield, ye youths! Ye yeoman, yield your yell;-* Zeno's, Zampater's, Zoroaster's zeal, Attracting all, arms against acts appeal! — From the 'Literary Gazette,' December 23, 1820.
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Otautau Standard and Wallace County Chronicle, Volume XI, Issue 553, 28 December 1915, Page 7
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175THE SIEGE OP BELGRADE Otautau Standard and Wallace County Chronicle, Volume XI, Issue 553, 28 December 1915, Page 7
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