2025-05-19
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It was after dread Poltova's day, when fortune left the royal Swede.
Around a slaughtered army lay no more to combat and to bleed.
The power and glory of the war, faithless as their vain votaries' men,
had passed to the triumphant Tsar, and Moscow's walls were safe again.
Until a day more dark and drear, and a more memorable year,
should give to slaughter and to shame a mightier host.
and haughtier name, a greater wreck, a deeper fall, a shock to one, a thunderbolt to all.
The beginning there of Lord Byron's poem Mazepa, which he wrote in 1819, and obviously, Dominic,
he was writing there in the shadow of Napoleon's invasion of Russia and the failure of his attempt to capture Moscow.