![By Moscow Self-Devoted To A Blaze, By: William Wordsworth](https://i0.wp.com/poetrycatalog.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/By-Moscow-Self-Devoted-To-A-Blaze-By-William-Wordsworth.png?resize=750%2C420&ssl=1)
By Moscow self-devoted to a blaze
Of dreadful sacrifice, by Russian blood
Lavished in fight with desperate hardihood;
The unfeeling Elements no claim shall raise
To rob our Human-nature of just praise
For what she did and suffered. Pledges sure
Of a deliverance absolute and pure
She gave, if Faith might tread the beaten ways
Of Providence. But now did the Most High
Exalt his still small voice; to quell that Host
Gathered his power, a manifest ally;
He, whose heaped waves confounded the proud boast
Of Pharaoh, said to Famine, Snow, and Frost,
Finish the strife by deadliest victory!”