Yet the allaying cup, in all that pain,
Untouch'd, untasted he gives o'er
To one who lay, and watch'd with eyes that craved it more:--

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'Take it,' he said, ''tis thine;
Thy need is more than mine';--
And smiled as one who looks through death to life:
--Then pass'd, true heart and brave,
Leal from birth to grave:--
For that curse-laden roar of mortal strife,
With God's own peace ineffable fill'd,--
In that eternal Love all earthly passion still'd.

In 1585 Elizabeth, who was then aiding the United Provinces in their
resistance to Spain, sent Sir Philip Sidney (born 1554) as governor of
the fortress of Flushing in Zealand. The Earl of Leicester, chosen by
the Queen's unhappy partiality to command the English force, named Sidney
(his nephew) General of the horse. He marched thence to Zutphen in
Guelderland, a town besieged by the Spaniards, in hopes of destroying a
strong reinforcement which they were bringing in aid of the besiegers.
The details of the rash and heroic charge which followed may be read in
Motley's _History of the United Netherlands_, ch. ix.

St. 1 _Guelderland_; in this province the Rhine divides before entering
the sea: 'gliding through a vast plain.'--_South-Fen_; Zutphen, on the
Yssel (Rhine).

St. 3 _The bands from Epirus_; Crescia, the Epirote chief, commanded a