Our bugles sang truce, for the night-cloud had lower'd, And… - Thomas Campbell

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Our bugles sang truce, for the night-cloud had lower'd,
And the sentinel stars set their watch in the sky;
And thousands had sunk on the ground overpower'd,
The weary to sleep, and the wounded to die.

Thomas Campbell

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Thomas Campbell (July 27, 1777 – June 15, 1844) was a Scottish poet, who served as Lord Rector of Glasgow University (1826–1829).

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Methinks, thy jubilee to keep, The first-made anthem rang On earth deliver'd from the deep, And the first poet sang. Nor ever shall the Muse's eye Unraptured greet thy beam: Theme of primeval prophecy, Be still the poet's theme!

There was silence deep as death,
And the boldest held his breath,
For a time.

Who hath not owned, with rapture-smitten frame,
The power of grace, the magic of a name?

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