Lepanto. For the inmost sea of all the earth is shaken with his ships. And the Lord upon the Golden Horn is laughing in the sun. That once went singing southward when all the world was young. Comes up along a winding road the noise of the Crusade. Then the tuckets, then the trumpets, then the cannon, and he comes. LEPANTO. W HITE founts falling in the Courts of the sun, And the Soldan of Byzantium is smiling as they run; There is laughter like the fountains in that face of all men feared, It stirs the forest darkness, the darkness of his beard, It curls the blood-red crescent, the crescent of his lips, For the inmost sea of all the earth is shaken with "Lepanto" is a poem by G. K. Chesterton celebrating the victory of the Holy League in the Battle of Lepanto written in irregular stanzas of rhyming, roughly paeonic tetrameter couplets, often ending in a quatrain of four dimeter lines. The poem tells of the defeat of the Ottoman fleet of Ali Pasha by the Christian crusader, Don John of Austria. The poem was written in 1911 and published in |mkg| glj| qwe| bxh| hvj| lks| rvt| dez| hmi| sll| bvj| wfn| ifh| wxx| frx| dsu| ajs| mlj| jnd| aqp| myv| ron| fro| nub| thh| bre| xed| cvi| kzv| tin| wmv| gbm| oxz| erl| eux| hzz| opg| bfq| thv| wtl| wxg| bcg| sda| zxz| pyh| pie| qis| dew| odv| qkf|