Captain Sword and Captain Pen: A Poem
Leigh Hunt
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
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This Poem is the result of a sense of duty, which has taken the Author from quieter studies during a great public crisis. He obeyed the impulse with joy, because it took the shape of verse; but with more pain, on some accounts, than he chooses to express. However, he has done what he conceived himself bound to do; and if every zealous lover of his species were to express his feelings in like manner, to the best of his ability, individual opinions, little in themselves, would soon amount to an overwhelming authority, and hasten the day of reason and beneficence. - Summary by Advertisement (1 hr 43 min)
Chapters
I. How Captain Sword marched to War | 3:38 | Read by Nemo |
II. How Captain Sword won a Great Victory | 6:26 | Read by Nemo |
III. Of the Ball that was given to Captain Sword | 2:36 | Read by Nemo |
IV. On What took place on the Field of Battle the Night after the Victory | 9:59 | Read by Nemo |
V. How Captain Sword, in Consequence of his Great Victories, became infirm in h… | 5:39 | Read by Larry Wilson |
VI. Of Captain Pen, and how he fought with Captain Sword | 7:23 | Read by Larry Wilson |
Postscript, Containing some Remarks on War and Military Statesmen, part 1 | 36:00 | Read by Nemo |
Postscript, Containing some Remarks on War and Military Statesmen, part 2 | 31:48 | Read by Larry Wilson |