When The Assault Was Intended To The City

John Milton

Captain, or colonel, or knight in arms,
Whose chance on these defenceless doors may seize,
If deed of honour did thee ever please,
Guard them, and him within protect from harms.
He can requite thee, for he knows the charms
That call fame on such gentle acts as these,
And he can spread thy name oer lands and seas,
Whatever clime the suns bright circle warms.
Lift not thy spear against the Muses bower;
The great Emathian conqueror bid spare
The house of Pindarus, when temple and tower
Went to the ground; and the repeated air
Of sad Electras Poet had the power
To save the Athenian walls from ruin bare.

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