Skip to content
Shawords

Quote#Wisdom

Till Belvoir’s lordly terraces the sign to Lincoln sent

Quote byThomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay · 1800–1859

Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The Armada (1833), L. 71.

English (original)

Till Belvoir’s lordly terraces the sign to Lincoln sent, And Lincoln sped the message on o’er the wide vale of Trent; Till Skiddaw saw the fire that burned on Gaunt’s embattled pile, And the red glare on Skiddaw roused the burghers of Carlisle.

— Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay

6.8K

More from Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay