sir arthur brookes victory exhilarate watching an empire melt away before you. never soon enough (facing 15,000 maryland soldiers, militia, and citizens fortifying hampstead hill in patterson park, the british stopped their attack on baltimore in 1814 and withdrew)
hampstead hill sands flooded and heapedwhen the water recedesgreen and mottlein light skybefore it returns (the western side of patterson park is a hill of sand deposited by a flood more than 65 million years ago)
