Crossword-Solution: FOREDOOM 8 letters, 7 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 14

Magnanimously could her iron Emperor Confront submission: hostile stirred to heat All his vast enginery, allowed no halt Up withered avenues of waste-blood war, To the pitiless red mounts of fire afume, As ’twere the world’s arteries opened! Woe the race! Ask wherefore Fortune’s vile caprice should balk His panther spring across the foaming salt, From martial sands to the cliffs of pallid chalk! There is no answer: seed of black defeat She then did sow, and France nigh unto death foredoom.

Fate, out of the deep sea’s gloom, When a man’s heart’s pride grows great, And nought seems now to foredoom Fate, Fate, laden with fears in wait, Draws close through the clouds that loom, Till the soul see, all too late, More dark than a dead world’s tomb, More high than the sheer dawn’s gate, More deep than the wide sea’s womb, Fate.

Come, do not hunt, And labour so about for circumstance, To make him guilty whom you have foredoom’d: Take shorter ways, I’ll meet your purposes.

Here Britain’s statesmen oft the fall foredoom Of foreign tyrants and of nymphs at home; Here thou, great Anna! whom three realms obey, Dost sometimes counsel take—and sometimes tea.

This Partridge {137} soon shall view in cloudless skies, When next he looks through Galileo’s eyes; And hence the egregious wizard shall foredoom The fate of Louis, and the fall of Rome.