Strong gongs groaning as the guns boom far (Don John of Austria is going to the war); Stiff flags straining in the night blasts cold In the gloom black-purple, in the glint old gold; Torchlight crimson on the copper kettledrums, Then the tuckets, then the trumpets, then the cannon, and he comes.


Lepanto (1915)

G. K. Chesterton Quotes

Strong gongs groaning as the guns boom far (Don John of Austria is going to the war); Stiff flags straining in the night blasts cold In the gloom...

Strong gongs groaning as the guns boom far (Don John of Austria is going to the war); Stiff flags straining in the night blasts cold In the gloom...

Strong gongs groaning as the guns boom far (Don John of Austria is going to the war); Stiff flags straining in the night blasts cold In the gloom...

Strong gongs groaning as the guns boom far (Don John of Austria is going to the war); Stiff flags straining in the night blasts cold In the gloom...