"We wait, like war-horse chafing To burst the fetters through, The word—"Up guards and at them" Of the Duke at Waterloo."
— Battle of Waterloo

January 1, 1970

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John Nichol, "Mulholland", stanza 7, in The Death of Themistocles, and Other Poems (1881), p. 207