Ontario Readers Third Book, The

<h2><SPAN name="Bugle" id="Bugle"></SPAN>THE BUGLE SONG</h2> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span class="i2">The splendour falls on castle walls<br/></span> <span class="i3">And snowy summits old in story:<br/></span> <span class="i2">The long light shakes across the lakes,<br/></span> <span class="i3">And the wild cataract leaps in glory.<br/></span> <span>Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying,<br/></span> <span>Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i2">O hark, O hear! how thin and clear,<br/></span> <span class="i3">And thinner, clearer, farther going!<br/></span> <span class="i2">O sweet and far from cliff and scar<br/></span> <span class="i3">The horns of Elfland faintly blowing!<br/></span> <span>Blow, let us hear the purple glens replying:<br/></span> <span>Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i2">O love, they die in yon rich sky,<br/></span> <span class="i3">They faint on hill or field or river:<br/></span> <span class="i2">Our echoes roll from soul to soul,<br/></span> <span class="i3">And grow for ever and for ever.<br/></span> <span>Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying,<br/></span> <span>And answer, echoes, answer, dying, dying, dying.<br/></span></div> </div> <p class="citation"><span class="smcap">Tennyson</span></p> <hr style="width: 65%;" /> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />