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Dante Gabriel Rossetti - Czar Alexander The Second
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FROM him did forty million serfs, endow`d
Each with six feet of death-due soil, receive
Rich freeborn lifelong land, whereon to sheave
Their country`s harvest. These to-day aloud
Demand of Heaven a Father`s blood,—sore bow`d
With tears and thrilled with wrath; who, while they grieve,
On every guilty head would fain achieve
All torment by his edicts disallow`d.
He stayed the knout`s red-ravening fangs; and first
Of Russian traitors, his own murderers go
White to the tomb. While he,—laid foully low
With limbs red-rent, with festering brain which erst
Willed kingly freedom,—`gainst the deed accurst
To God bears witness of his people`s woe.
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