Here you will find the Poem On Reading A Dictacted Letter of poet Sydney Thompson Dobell
Dear Friend, methinks when thus thy plenary soul Speaks from yon pale default that lies so low, The hale and stalwart by thy couch must know Such fond intoleration to be whole As he, who, where the storms of battle roll, Himself unthrown beholds the cannon throw His father at his feet, and, while a woe Of splendid shame dements him to that sole Passion, above the fallen field looks round The red conversion of the baptized ground For aught whereon to spend his sanguine wealth And, seeking not the value but the cost, Rushes to win whatever, won or lost, May end this gross unwounded infamy of health.
