After Blenheim

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"After Blenheim" is a well-known anti-war poem written by English Romantic poet Robert Southey in 1796. The poem is set at the site of the Battle of Blenheim (1704) several generations after the battle, and centres around small children's questions about a skull one of them has found, and an old man's repetitive answer that the battle was "a famous victory".