History & Politics
A Victorious Paean to our Albions Saint
From A Strappado for the Divell (1615)
History & Politics
Iö Pean then must wee
Giue St George the victorie:
Whose desert
Grac't each part;
Where so ere he vs'd to be,
None more grac't, or lou'd then he.
Perseus though his renowne,
Did to all the world come;
Yet one staine,
Dimm'd his same:
But the worlds spatious roome,
Shrines St George in honours tombe.
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Brathwaite, Richard. “A Victorious Paean to our Albions Saint.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/brathwaite/40/.
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Brathwaite, Richard. “A Victorious Paean to our Albions Saint.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/brathwaite/40/.
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