"But hush! hark! a deep sound strikes like a rising knell!"

This print goes with Lord Byron's "The Eve of Waterloo" in the text, so you're already depressed. "'Twas but the wind ... On with the dance!" Every man here will be dead in a fortnight.

You wonder if this read any differently to an entire generation who's older brothers and fathers had just come back from war. Or, later, as the book aged, were eyeing a return to battle in a place called Korea.

There are no notes in this section. Maybe his class skipped the Romantics.

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