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I / 'Twas after dread Pultowa's day, / When Fortune left the royal Swede - / Around a slaughtered army lay, / No more to combat and to bleed.
The power and glory of the war, / Faithless as their vain votaries, men, / Had passed to the triumphant Czar, / And Moscow's walls were safe again - / Until a day more dark and drear, / And a more memorable year, / Should give to slaughter and to shame / A mightier host and haughtier name; / A greater wreck, a deeper fall, / A shock to one - a thunderbolt to all.