After Blenheim

After Blenheim

"After Blenheim" is an anti-war poem written by English Romantic poet laureate Robert Southey in 1796. The poem is set at the site of the Battle of Blenheim (1704) several generations after the battle, and centres around small children's questions about a skull one of them has found. He tells them of burned homes, civilian casualties, and rotting corpses, while repeatedly calling it "a famous victory". The often-quoted [e.g. included in [http://www.bartleby.com/100/342.17.html Bartlett's Familiar Quotations] ] closing lines are:

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But what good came of it at last?"
Quoth little Peterkin.
"Why that I cannot tell," said he,
"But 'twas a famous victory."

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* [http://www.bartleby.com/106/216.html Text of the poem]


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