| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 63360 |
| QUOTATION: | An Austrian army, awfully array’d,
Boldly by battery besiege Belgrade;
Cossack commanders cannonading come,
Deal devastation’s dire destructive doom; |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Alaric Alexander Watts (1797–1864), British poet. An Austrian Army (l. 1–4). . .
Faber Book of Comic Verse, The. Michael Roberts and Janet Adam Smith, eds. (Rev. ed., 1974; paperback 1978) Faber and Faber attributed to Watts. |
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