The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold,
\nAnd his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold;
\nAnd the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea,
\nWhen the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee.<\/p>\n
Like the leaves of the forest when Summer is green,
\nThat host with their banners at sunset were seen:
\nLike the leaves of the forest when Autumn hath blown,
\nThat host on the morrow lay withered and strown.<\/p>\n
For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast,
\nAnd breathed in the face of the foe as he passed;
\nAnd the eyes of the sleepers waxed deadly and chill,
\nAnd their hearts but once heaved, and for ever grew still!<\/p>\n
And there lay the steed with his nostril all wide,
\nBut through it there rolled not the breath of his pride;
\nAnd the foam of his gasping lay white on the turf,
\nAnd cold as the spray of the rock-beating surf.<\/p>\n
And there lay the rider distorted and pale,
\nWith the dew on his brow, and the rust on his mail:
\nAnd the tents were all silent, the banners alone,
\nThe lances unlifted, the trumpet unblown.<\/p>\n
And the widows of Ashur are loud in their wail,
\nAnd the idols are broke in the temple of Baal;
\nAnd the might of the Gentile, unsmote by the sword,
\nHath melted like snow in the glance of the Lord!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
First published in 1815 The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold; And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea, When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee. Like the leaves of the forest when Summer is green, That […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}