| Arthur Quiller-Couch, comp. The Oxford Book of Victorian Verse. 1922. | | | | A Huguenot | | By Mary Elizabeth Coleridge (1861–1907) |
| | | O, A GALLANT set were they, | |
| As they charged on us that day, | |
| A thousand riding like one! | |
| Their trumpets crying, | |
| And their white plumes flying, | 5 |
| And their sabres flashing in the sun. | |
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| O, a sorry lot were we, | |
| As we stood beside the sea, | |
| Each man for himself as he stood! | |
| We were scatter’d and lonely— | 10 |
| A little force only | |
| Of the good men fighting for the good. | |
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| But I never loved more | |
| On sea or on shore | |
| The ringing of my own true blade. | 15 |
| Like lightning it quiver’d, | |
| And the hard helms shiver’d, | |
| As I sang, ‘None maketh me afraid!’ | | | | |
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