Produced by David Edwards, Emmy and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) [Illustration: [_To face the Title._] CAPTAIN SWORD AND CAPTAIN PEN. =A Poem.= BY LEIGH HUNT. WITH SOME REMARKS ON WAR AND MILITARY STATESMEN. --If there be in glory aught of good, It may by means far different be attained, Without ambition, war, or violence.--MILTON. LONDON: CHARLES KNIGHT, LUDGATE STREET. 1835. TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE LORD BROUGHAM AND VAUX, WITH WHOM THE WRITER HUMBLY DIFFERS ON SOME POINTS, BUT DEEPLY RESPECTS FOR HIS MOTIVES ON ALL; GREAT IN OFFICE FOR WHAT HE DID FOR THE WORLD, GREATER OUT OF IT IN CALMLY AWAITING HIS TIME TO DO MORE; THE PROMOTER OF EDUCATION; THE EXPEDITER OF JUSTICE; THE LIBERATOR FROM SLAVERY; AND (WHAT IS THE RAREST VIRTUE IN A STATESMAN) ALWAYS A DENOUNCER OF WAR, =These Pages are Inscribed= BY HIS EVER AFFECTIONATE SERVANT, Jan. 30, 1835. LEIGH HUNT. ADVERTISEMENT. 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. The measure is regular with an irregular aspect,--four accents in a verse,--like that of Christabel, or some of the poems of Sir Walter Scott: Captain Sword got up one day-- And the flag full of honour, as though it could feel-- He mentions this, not, of course, for readers in general, but for the sake of those daily acceders to the list of the reading public, whose knowledge of books is not yet equal to their love of them. [Illustration: STEPPING IN MUSIC AND THUNDER SWEET, WHICH HIS DRUMS SENT BEFORE HIM INTO THE STREET. _Canto_ I. _p._ 1.] CAPTAIN SWORD AND CAPTAIN PEN. I. HOW CAPTAIN SWORD MARCHED TO WAR.