XXIII.

We rode in silence. And at twilight came

Into the Moated Manse.--Great clouds had grown

Up in the West, on which the sunset's flame

Lay like the hand of slaughter.--Very lone

Its rooms and halls: a splintered door that, lame,

Swung on one hinge; a cabinet o'erthrown;

Or arras torn; or blood-stain turning wan,

Showed us the way the battle once had gone.

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