History & Politics
On a Royal Visit to the Vaults
From Epigrams and Jeux d'Esprit
Famed for their civil and domestic quarrels
See heartless Henry lies by headless Charles;
Between them stands another sceptred thing,
It lives, it reigns--"aye, every inch a king."
Charles to his people, Henry to his wife,
In him the double tyrant starts to life:
Justice and Death have mixed their dust in vain.
The royal Vampires join and rise again.
What now can tombs avail, since these disgorge
The blood and dirt of both to mould a George!
Codex Note
[Or Caesar's Discovery of C.i. And H. 8. In Ye Same Vault.]
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MLA
Byron, George Gordon, Lord. “On a Royal Visit to the Vaults.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/byron/222/.
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Byron, George Gordon, Lord. “On a Royal Visit to the Vaults.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/byron/222/.
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