Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,
Birds of Passage — The Warden of the Cinque Ports
(1847)
“ No morning gun from the black fort's embrasure, Awaken with its call!No more, surveying with an eye impartial The long line of the coast, Shall the gaunt figure of the old Field Marshal Be seen upon his post!For in the night, unseen, a single warrior, In sombre harness mailed, Dreaded of man, and surnamed the Destroyer, The rampart wall has scaled. ”
