With fire and sword the country round Was wasted far and wide,And many a childing mother then, And new-born infant, died.But things like that, you know, must beAt every famous victory.They say it was a shocking sight, After the field was won,For many thousand bodies here Lay rotting in the sun;But things like that, you know, must beAfter a famous victory.
-Robert Southey
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