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Algernon Charles Swinburne - DysthanatosAlgernon Charles Swinburne - Dysthanatos
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BY no dry death another king goes down     The way of kings. Yet may no free man’s voice,     For stern compassion and deep awe, rejoice That one sign more is given against the crown, That one more head those dark red waters drown     Which rise round thrones whose trembling equipoise     Is propped on sand and bloodshed and such toys As human hearts that shrink at human frown. The name writ red on Polish earth, the star That was to outshine our England’s in the far     East heaven of empire where is one that saith Proud words now, prophesying of this White Czar?     ‘In bloodless pangs few kings yield up their breath,     Few tyrants perish by no violent death,’
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