The word ‘knell’ is in a lot of his stuff.
Thursday, January 17th, 2008Extracted from The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore, Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes.
As by the shore, at break of day,
A vanquished chief expiring lay,
Upon the sands, with broken sword,
He traced his farewell to the free;
And there the last unfinished word
He dying wrote, was “Liberty!”
At night a sea-bird shrieked the knell
Of him who thus [...]
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