England and Yesterday

<p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_59" id="Page_59">[59]</SPAN></span></p> <h2>PAX PAGANICA.</h2> <div class="poetry-container"> <div class="poetry"> <div class="stanza"> <div class="verse">Good oars, for Arnold’s sake,</div> <div class="verse">By Laleham lightly bound,</div> <div class="verse">And near the bank, O soft,</div> <div class="verse">Darling swan!</div> <div class="verse">Let not the o’erweary wake</div> <div class="verse">Anew from natal ground,</div> <div class="verse">But where he slumbered oft,</div> <div class="verse">Slumber on.</div> </div> <div class="stanza"> <div class="verse">Be less than boat or bird,</div> <div class="verse">The pensive stream along;</div> <div class="verse">No murmur make, nor gleam,</div> <div class="verse">At his side.</div> <div class="verse">Where was it he had heard</div> <div class="verse">Of warfare and of wrong?—</div> <div class="verse">Not there, in any dream</div> <div class="verse">Since he died.</div> </div></div> </div> <hr> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />