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TESTIFYING. - ZaunköniG - 17.12.2012 The warrior oft bears the scars of fight, Which of honour'd fields memorials wear ; But tho' he stay anniversaries here, His body sinks as 'neath a crushing blight : So thus with the mind from which hope her flight Has ta'en in former years, tho' it survive And e'en as if with death in life will live, Its mortal wounds remain, not to the sight Appearing, each incision leaves its trace, Unheal'd beneath, altho' the outwardsign Nothing can, as it never does, erase, E'en still it lurks as the treacherous mine Awaiting the destroying hand to place What ends the purpose of the death- fraught line. |