The Destruction of Sennacherib
Lord Byron
1788 to 1824
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The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold,
And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold;
______ the sheen of their spears was like stars on ______ sea,
When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee.
Like the leaves of the forest when Summer is green,
That host with their banners at sunset were seen:
______ the leaves of the forest when Autumn hath blown,
______ host on the morrow lay withered and strown.
For ______ Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast,
______ breathed in the face of the foe as he passed;
And the eyes of the sleepers waxed deadly and chill,
And their hearts but once heaved, and for ever ______ still!
And there lay the steed with his nostril ______ wide,
But through it there rolled not the breath ______ his pride;
And the foam of his gasping lay ______ on the turf,
And cold as the spray of ______ rock-beating surf.
And there lay the rider distorted and pale,
With the dew on his brow, and the rust ______ his mail:
And the tents were all silent, the ______ alone,
The lances unlifted, the trumpet unblown.
And the ______ of Ashur are loud in their wail,
And the ______ are broke in the temple of Baal;
And the ______ of the Gentile, unsmote by the sword,
Hath melted ______ snow in the glance of the Lord!