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第462章 THE DELIVERANCE OF VIENNA(2)

With a crash of wild dismay, Their ten thousand ranks gave way;Fast they broke, and fast they fled;

Trampled, mangled, dying, dead, Horse and horsemen mingled lay;Till the mountains of the slain Raised the valleys to the plain.

Be all the glory to Thy name divine!

The swords were our's; the arm, O Lord, was Thine.

Therefore to Thee, beneath whose footstool wait The powers which erring man calls Chance and Fate, To Thee who hast laid low The pride of Europe's foe, And taught Byzantium's sullen lords to fear, I pour my spirit out In a triumphant shout, And call all ages and all lands to hear.

Thou who evermore endurest, Loftiest, mightiest, wisest, purest, Thou whose will destroys or saves, Dread of tyrants, hope of slaves, The wreath of glory is from Thee, And the red sword of victory.

There where exulting Danube's flood Runs stained with Islam's noblest blood From that tremendous field, There where in mosque the tyrants met, And from the crier's minaret Unholy summons pealed, Pure shrines and temples now shall be Decked for a worship worthy Thee.

To Thee thy whole creation pays With mystic sympathy its praise, The air, the earth, the seas:

The day shines forth with livelier beam;

There is a smile upon the stream, An anthem on the breeze.

Glory, they cry, to Him whose might Hath turned the barbarous foe to flight, Whose arm protects with power divine The city of his favoured line.

The caves, the woods, the rocks, repeat the sound;The everlasting hills roll the long echoes round.

But, if Thy rescued church may dare Still to besiege Thy throne with prayer, Sheathe not, we implore Thee, Lord, Sheathe not Thy victorious sword.

Still Panonia pines away, Vassal of a double sway:

Still Thy servants groan in chains, Still the race which hates Thee reigns:

Part the living from the dead:

Join the members to the head:

Snatch Thine own sheep from yon fell monster's hold;Let one kind shepherd rule one undivided fold.

He is the victor, only he Who reaps the fruits of victory.

We conquered once in vain, When foamed the Ionian waves with gore, And heaped Lepanto's stormy shore With wrecks and Moslem slain.

Yet wretched Cyprus never broke The Syrian tyrant's iron yoke.

Shall the twice vanquished foe Again repeat his blow?

Shall Europe's sword be hung to rust in peace?

No--let the red-cross ranks Of the triumphant Franks Bear swift deliverance to the shrines of Greece And in her inmost heart let Asia feel The avenging plagues of Western fire and steel.

Oh God! for one short moment raise The veil which hides those glorious days.

The flying foes I see Thee urge Even to the river's headlong verge.

Close on their rear the loud uproar Of fierce pursuit from Ister's shore Comes pealing on the wind;The Rab's wild waters are before, The Christian sword behind.

Sons of perdition, speed your flight, No earthly spear is in the rest;No earthly champion leads to fight The warriors of the West.

The Lord of Host asserts His old renown, Scatters, and smites, and slays, and tramples down.

Fast, fast beyond what mortal tongue can say, Or mortal fancy dream, He rushes on his prey:

Till, with the terrors of the wondrous theme Bewildered, and appalled, I cease to sing, And close my dazzled eye, and rest my wearied wing....

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