{"collection":"scripture-revelation","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/wikisource_The_Reciter_Hohenlinden/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/wikisource_The_Reciter_Hohenlinden","id":"wikisource_The_Reciter_Hohenlinden","license":"Public Domain / CC-BY-SA (see source)","rights_basis":"wikisource_site_inclusion_policy","source":"wikisource","source_url":"https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Reciter/Hohenlinden","summary":null,"tags":["Chapbooks","Headers_applying_DefaultSort_key","Pages_with_contributor","Scottish_poetry","Subpages","War","Works_using_categories_parameter"],"text":"\u2014\u2014\u2014\n\nHOHENLINDEN.\n\nOn Linden, when the sun was low,\n\nAll bloodless lay the untrodden snow,\n\nAnd dark as winter was the flow\n\nOf Iser rolling rapidly.\n\nBut Linden saw another sight,\n\nWhen the drum beat at dead of night,\n\nCommanding fires of death to light\n\nThe darkness of her scenery!\n\nBy torch and trumpet fast array'd,\n\nEach horseman drew his battle-blade,\n\nAnd furious every charger neigh'd,\n\nTo join the dreadful revelry,\n\nThen shook the hills with thunder riven,\n\nThen rush'd the steed to battle driven,\n\nAnd louder than the bolts of Heaven,\n\nFar flash'd the red artillery.\n\nBut redder yet that light shall glow,\n\nOn Linden's hills of stained snow;\n\nAnd bloodier yet the torrent flow\n\nOf Iser rolling rappidly.\n\nTis morn-but scarce yon level sun\n\nCan pierce the war-clouds rolling dun,\n\nWhere furious Frank and fiery Hun\n\nShout in their sulphurous canopy.\n\nThe combat deepens-On, ye brave,\n\nWho rush to glory or the grave;\n\nWave, Munich, all thy banners wave,\n\nAnd charge with all thy chivalry!---\n\nFew, few shall part where many meet,-\n\nThe snow shall be their winding sheet;\n\nAnd every turf beneath their feet\n\nShall be a soldier's sepulchre.","title":"The Reciter/Hohenlinden","tradition":"scripture-revelation","translated_text":null,"word_count":192}