Sir William Alexander

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    They turn one’s legs
    To cribbage pegs—
    Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)

    An Austrian army, awfully array’d,
    Boldly by battery besiege Belgrade;
    Cossack commanders cannonading come,
    Deal devastation’s dire destructive doom;
    —Alaric Alexander Watts (1797–1864)