id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt chapter-002 chapter-002 .txt text/plain 169 11 83 As I ponderd in silence, As I ponderd in silence, Returning upon my poems, considering, lingering long, A Phantom arose before me with distrustful aspect, Terrible in beauty, age, and power, The genius of poets of old lands, As to me directing like flame its eyes, With finger pointing to many immortal songs, And menacing voice, What singest thou? it said, Knowst thou not there is but one theme for ever-enduring bards? And that is the theme of War, the fortune of battles, The making of perfect soldiers. Be it so, then I answerd, I too haughty Shade also sing war, and a longer and greater one than any, Waged in my book with varying fortune, with flight, advance and retreat, victory deferrd and wavering, (Yet methinks certain, or as good as certain, at the last,) the Lo, I too am come, chanting the chant of battles, I above all promote brave soldiers. ./cache/chapter-002.txt ./txt/chapter-002.txt