 | Michael Harrison, Christopher Stuart-Clark - 1989 - 216 pàgines
...from cities and from fields, To sell their liberty for charms Of tawdry lace, and glittering arms; And when Ambition's voice commands, To march, and...fight, and fall, in foreign lands. I hate that drum's discordant sound, Parading round, and round, and round: To me it talks of ravaged plains, And burning... | |
 | Geoffrey O'Brien, Billy Collins - 2007 - 778 pàgines
...from cities and from fields, To sell their liberty for charms Of tawdry lace, and glittering arms; And when Ambition's voice commands, To march, and...fight, and fall, in foreign lands. I hate that drum's discordant sound, Parading round, and round, and round: To me it talks of ravaged plains, And burning... | |
 | Cambridge International Examinations - 2005 - 272 pàgines
...from cities and from fields, To sell their liberty for charms Of tawdry lace, and glittering arms; And, when Ambition's voice commands, To march and...fight, and fall, in foreign lands. I hate that drum's discordant sound. Parading round, and round, and round: To me it talks of ravaged plains. And burning... | |
 | 1898 - 572 pàgines
...fields, To sell their liberties for charms Of tawdry lace and glittering arms. And, when the ambitious voice commands, To march, and fight and fall in foreign lands. I hate that drum's discordant sound Parading round and round and round ; To me it speaks of ravaged plains, Of burning... | |
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I HATE that drum's discordant sound, Parading round, and round, and round : To thoughtless youth it pleasure yields, And lures from cities and from fields, To sell their liberty for charms Of tawdry lace and glittering arms ; And when Ambition's voice... 
