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Poem by Matthew Arnold


The Charge


They outtalked thee, hissed thee, tore thee?
Better men fared thus before thee;
Fired their ringing shot and pass'd,
Hotly charged- and sank at last.
Charge once more, then, and be dumb!
Let the victors, when they come,
When the forts of folly fall,
Find thy body by the wall! 



Matthew Arnold


Matthew Arnold's other poems:
  1. Religious Isolation
  2. To George Cruikshank
  3. Written in Butler’s Sermons
  4. Written in Emerson’s Essays
  5. To the Duke of Wellington


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