Pause! - On The Hesitation Of The Czar To Force A Passage Of The Danube

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Title:     Pause! - On The Hesitation Of The Czar To Force A Passage Of The Danube
Author: J. C. Manning [More Titles by Manning]

ON THE HESITATION OF THE CZAR TO FORCE A PASSAGE
OF THE DANUBE, JUNE, 1877.

Aye--hesitate! "Soldiers who stop to think
Are lost." So said a soldier (a) ere he died:
Lost, then, art thou--thus shivering on the brink.
Death was thy father's cure for humbled pride!

 

(a) Wellington.

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J. C. Manning's poem: Pause! - On The Hesitation Of The Czar To Force A Passage Of The Danube

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