Crossword-Solution: POITIER 7 letters, 21 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

Such are the notes should say How Britain's hope, and France's fear, Victor of Cressy and Poitier, In Bordeaux dying lay." "Poitiers, by the way, is always spelt with an _s,_ and I know no reason why orthography should give place to rhyme.-- "'Raise my faint head, my squires,' he said, 'And let the casement be display'd, That I may see once more The splendour of the setting sun Gleam on thy mirrored wave, Garonne, And Blaye's empurpled shore.

Such are the notes should say How Britain's hope, and France's fear, Victor of Cressy and Poitier, In Bordeaux dying lay.” “Poitiers, by the way, is always spelt with an _s,_ and I know no reason why orthography should give place to rhyme.-- “'Raise my faint head, my squires,' he said, 'And let the casement be display'd, That I may see once more The splendour of the setting sun Gleam on thy mirrored wave, Garonne, And Blaye's empurpled shore.

The fair philosopher to Rowley flies, Where, in a box, the whole creation lies: She sees the planets in their turns advance, And scorns, Poitier, thy sublunary dance; Of Desagulier she bespeaks fresh air; And Whiston has engagements with the fair.

The golden corn shall wave on Cressy's plain, The thrush shall sing in Poitier's woods again; The rosemaries upon Najarra's hill Shall perfume Najarilla's noiseless rill; The fields of France shall bloom in verdant pride, Unstained by ruthless conquest's crimson tide; The summer roses bloom in far Castile-- While, levelled by the dart we all must feel, The mortal victor lies--a wreck of clay, Once brilliant and as perishing as they.