<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><p style="margin: 0px 0px 5px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">The Destruction of Sennacherib </span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 5px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(4, 51, 255); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(4, 51, 255); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><br class=""></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 5px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, <br class="">
And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold; <br class="">
And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea, <br class="">
When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee. <br class="">
<br class="">Like the leaves of the forest when Summer is green, <br class="">
That host with their banners at sunset were seen: <br class="">
Like the leaves of the forest when Autumn hath blown, <br class="">
That host on the morrow lay withered and strown. <br class="">
<br class="">For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast, <br class="">
And breathed in the face of the foe as he passed; <br class="">
And the eyes of the sleepers waxed deadly and chill, <br class="">
And their hearts but once heaved, and for ever grew still! <br class="">
<br class="">And there lay the steed with his nostril all wide, <br class="">
But through it there rolled not the breath of his pride; <br class="">
And the foam of his gasping lay white on the turf, <br class="">
And cold as the spray of the rock-beating surf. <br class="">
<br class="">And there lay the rider distorted and pale, <br class="">
With the dew on his brow, and the rust on his mail: <br class="">
And the tents were all silent, the banners alone, <br class="">
The lances unlifted, the trumpet unblown. <br class="">
<br class="">And the widows of Ashur are loud in their wail, <br class="">
And the idols are broke in the temple of Baal; <br class="">
And the might of the Gentile, unsmote by the sword, <br class="">
Hath melted like snow in the glance of the Lord!</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; min-height: 15px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></p><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;" class=""><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></span>- Lord Byron</p>
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