With dying hand the rudder held, Till, in his fall, with fateful sway, The steerage of the realm gave way ! Then, while on Britain's thousand plains, One unpolluted church remains, Whose peaceful bells ne'er sent around The bloody tocsin's maddening sound,... Aeschylus - Page 109by Reginald Stephen Copleston - 1870 - 196 pagesFull view - About this book
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