Eliot, Samuel, 1821-1898 · Boston : [J. Wilson & Son, University Press] · leaf 129
And then the old man shook his head. And, with a natural sigh, Tis some poor fellows skull, said he, Who fell in the great victory ! I find them in the garden. For theres many here about;And often.when I go to plough. The ploughshare turns them out;For many thousand men, said he, Were slain in that… … Who put the French to rout;But what they killed each othcM- for I could not well niake out.But everybody said, nuoth he, That twas a famous victory ! THE BATTLE OF BLENHEIM. Ill Mv fiither lived at Blenheim then, Yon little stream hard by :They burned his dwelling to the ground, And he was forced…
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