...for her that sunlike stood Upon the forehead of our day. An orb of nations, radiating food For body and for mind alway. Where is the shape of glad array;...hands, the front of steel, The clarion tongue? Where the bold, proud face? We see a vacant place; We hear an iron heel. These are the opening words of the...

...that Dick came to see France as a person, trie ' wanton ' in her submerged, the ' angel ' apparent : ' The shape of glad array, The nervous hands, the front of steel, The clarion tongue, the proud, bold face.' Was the poet thinking of Jeanne D'Arc, he wondered ? She had been sweet and...

...for her that sunlike stood Upon the forehead of our day, An orb of nations, radiating food For body and for mind alway. Where is the Shape of glad array...face ? We see a vacant place ; We hear an iron heel. ii. O she that made the brave appeal For manhood when our time was dark, And from our fetters struck...

...for her that sunlike stood Upon the forehead of our day, An orb of nations, radiating food For body and for mind alway. Where is the Shape of glad array...face ? We see a vacant place ; We hear an iron heel. ii. O she that made the brave appeal For manhood when our time was dark, And from our fetters drove...

...Upon the forehead of our day." The present sorrows of France only serve to recall to us that it was " She that made the brave appeal For manhood when our time was dark, And from our fetters drove the spark Which was as lightning to reveal New seasons with the swit 'ter play Of pulses, and...

...for her that sunlike stood Upon the forehead of our day, An orb of nations, radiating food For body and for mind alway. Where is the Shape of glad array;...face ? We see a vacant place; We hear an iron heel. II O she that made the brave appeal For manhood when our time was dark, And from our fetters drove...

...stood Upon the forehead of our day, An orb of nations, radiating food For body and for mind alvvay. Where is the Shape of glad array ; The nervous hands,...face ? We see a vacant place ; We hear an iron heel. II O she that made the brave appeal For manhood when our time was dark, And from our fetters drove...

...for her that sunlike stood Upon the forehead of our day, An orb of nations, radiating food For body and for mind alway. Where is the Shape of glad array...face ? We see a vacant place ; We hear an iron heel. II O she that made the brave appeal For manhood when our time was dark, And from our fetters drove...

...for her that sunlike stood Upon the forehead of our day, An orb of nations, radiating food For body and for mind alway. Where is the Shape of glad array...face ? We see a vacant place ; We hear an iron heel. The reticence with which the Prussian is treated throughout the poem is terrible : We hear an iron...

...know nothing in historical poetry more deeply moving than this verse written in December 1870 : — O she that made the brave appeal For manhood when our time was dark, And from our fetters drove the spark Which was as lightning to reveal New seasons, with the swifter play Of pulses, and...