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Lepanto. For the inmost sea of all the earth is shaken with his ships. And the Lord upon the Golden Horn is laughing in the sun. Comes up along a winding road the noise of the Crusade. Then the tuckets, then the trumpets, then the cannon, and he comes. Holding his head up for a flag of all the free.
Don John laughing in the brave beard curled, Spurning of his stirrups like the thrones of all the world, Holding his head up for a flag of all the free. Love-light of Spain – hurrah! Death-light of Africa! Don John of Austria Is riding to the sea. Mahound is in his paradise above the evening star, (Don John of Austria is going to the war.)
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Oct 7, 2021 · October 7, 2021 12:13 PM. “ Don John of Austria is going to the war .”. G. K. Chesterton’s stirring line rings out from his poem “Lepanto,” bringing us back 450 years to that fateful ...
(Don John of Austria is going to the war.) Sudden and still—hurrah! Bolt from Iberia! Don John of Austria Is gone by Alcalar. St. Michael’s on his mountain in the sea-roads of the north (Don John of Austria is girt and going forth.) Where the grey seas glitter and the sharp tides shift And the sea folk labour and the red sails lift.
(Don John of Austria is going to the war.) Sudden and still - hurrah! Bolt from Iberia! Don John of Austria Is gone by Alcalar. St. Michael's on his Mountain in the sea-roads of the north (Don John of Austria is girt and going forth.) Where the grey seas glitter and the sharp tides shift And the sea-folk labour and the red sails lift.
Dec 1, 2006 · Still, Don Juan showed that chivalry could indeed live and breathe, even in the thinner air of a Europe no longer unified by the Catholic ideals that gave birth to chivalry. And so: Cervantes on his galley sets the sword back in the sheath (Don John of Austria rides homeward with a wreath.) And he sees across a weary land a straggling road in ...
Soon after daybreak, on Sunday, the 7ih of October, 1571, the great fleet of the Holy League entered the Gulf of Lepanto, the ancient Gulf of Corinth. The left wing, consisting of sixty-three ...
