The Poetical Works of George MacDonald (Parables)

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III.

A hundred level miles away,

  On Egypt's troubled shore, Two nations fought, that sunny day,

  With bellowing cannons' roar.

The fluttering whisper, low and near,

  Was that far battle's blare; A lipping, rippling motion here,

  The blasting thunder there.

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