Word: templars
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...form of verse, and the clothing of an otherwise pretty simile in too many words. While there is a good line here and there, it is lost in the effect of the whole, which impresses one rather as an attempt at versifying than as a piece of poetry. "The Templar's Song" is very musical and is full of martial notes. It sets us right in the midst of the Crusades. This poem breathes more healthy life and has much more blood in its veins, if I may so express myself, than much else that we have seen from...