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Dante Gabriel Rossetti - After The German Subjugation Of France, 1871
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LO the twelfth year—the wedding-feast come round 
With years for months—and lo the babe new-born; 
Out of the womb`s rank furnace cast forlorn, 
And with contagious effluence seamed and crown`d. 
To hail this birth, what fiery tongues surround 
Hell`s Pentecost—what clamour of all cries 
That swell, from Absalom`s scoff to Shimei`s, 
One scornful gamut of tumultuous sound!
For now the harlot`s heart on a new sleeve 
Is prankt; and her heart`s lord of yesterday 
(Spurned from her bed, whose worm-spun silks o`erlay 
Such fretwork as that other worm can weave) 
Takes in his ears the vanished world`s last yell, 
And in his flesh the closing teeth of Hell.
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