Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Americas: Vol. XXX. 1876–79. | | | | British America: Quebec, Canada | | On the Taking of Quebec | | Oliver Goldsmith (1730–1774) |
| | | AMIDST the clamor of exulting joys, | |
| Which triumph forces from the patriot heart, | |
| Grief dares to mingle her soul-piercing voice, | |
| And quells the raptures which from pleasure start. | |
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| O Wolfe! to thee a streaming flood of woe, | 5 |
| Sighing we pay, and think e’en conquest dear; | |
| Quebec in vain shall teach our breast to glow, | |
| Whilst thy sad fate extorts the heart-wrung tear. | |
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| Alive, the foe thy dreadful vigor fled, | |
| And saw thee fall with joy-pronouncing eyes; | 10 |
| Yet they shall know thou conquerest, though dead! | |
| Since from thy tomb a thousand heroes rise. | | | | |
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