StoryTitle("caps", "Hohenlinden") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "On Linden, when the sun was low,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "All bloodless lay th' untrodden snow;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And dark as winter was the flow", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Of Iser, rolling rapidly.", "") ?>
PagePoem(135, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But Linden saw another sight,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When the drum beat, at dead of night,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Commanding fires of death to light", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The darkness of her scenery.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "By torch and trumpet fast array'd", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Each horseman drew his battle-blade,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And furious every charger neigh'd", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "To join the dreadful revelry.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Then shook the hills with thunder riven,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Then rush'd the steed to battle driven,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And louder than the bolts of Heaven,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Far flashed the red artillery.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But redder yet that light shall glow", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "On Linden's hills or stainèd snow;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And bloodier yet the torrent flow", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Of Iser, rolling rapidly.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "'Tis morn, but scarce yon level sun", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Can pierce the war-clouds, rolling dun,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Where furious Frank, and fiery Hun,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Shout in their sulphurous canopy.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The combat deepens. On, ye brave", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Who rush to glory or the grave!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Wave, Munich! all thy banners wave,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And charge with all thy chivalry!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Few, few shall part, where many meet!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The snow shall be their winding-sheet,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And every turf beneath their feet", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Shall be a soldier's sepulcher.", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("100", SmallCapsText("Thomas Campbell.")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>