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Excerpt from Leaves of Laurel: Or New Probationary Odes, for the Vacant Laureatship O'er Islington's exalted spire, O'er Pentonville, the festal fire Streams on the blazing town from every station, And heightens Victory's Illumination. No falling rain-drop damps The lustre of the lamps; To thee, the mighty-one of Spain, they shine, And all this blaze of statelin'ess is thine. Fast ed the French o'er valley and o'er mountain, Nearly was King Joe shot by Captain Wyndham Proudly wast thou exhibited in England, Staff of the Marshal 1 Horns horns! Around the Square What do these horns declare Loud as Orlando's horn from Roncevaux, From the same vales the Fall of France they blow' Hear them thou modern Charlemagne! Oh hear! Though Dresden now is not so near To bloomsbury-square, as Paris on that day, To F ontarabia Joy, joy to Wellington, The glorious Wellington, Joy -ih the passes of the Pyrenees, Passes that never saw such passings through as these. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.