“I heard Amos yell, “For Brooklyn!”
It was an odd battle cry.”
Source: The Red Pyramid
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“A cry like the last yell when warring cities are opened up.”
Clamorem, bello supremus apertis
urbibus.
Source: Thebaid, Book III, Line 56. J. H. Mozley's translation: "...that last cry when cities are flung open to the victors".
“I heard them cry — the peacocks.
Was it a cry against the twilight
Or against the leaves themselves”
"Domination of Black"
Harmonium (1923)
Context: I heard them cry — the peacocks.
Was it a cry against the twilight
Or against the leaves themselves
Turning in the wind,
Turning as the flames
Turned in the fire,
Turning as the tails of the peacocks
Turned in the loud fire,
Loud as the hemlocks
Full of the cry of the peacocks?
Or was it a cry against the hemlocks?
"Count Magnus", from Ghost Stories of an Antiquary (1904); The Collected Ghost Stories of M. R. James (London: Edward Arnold, 1947) p. 111.
“"Freedom!" their battle-cry,—
"Freedom! or leave to die!"”
The Black Regiment.
The Lost Son, ll. 1-4
The Lost Son and Other Poems (1948)