History & Politics
A Foreign Ruler
From Heroic Idyls (1863)
History & Politics
He says, My reign is peace so slays
A thousand in the dead of night.
Are you all happy now ? he says,
And those he leaves behind cry quite.
He swears he will have no contention,
And sets all nations by the ears ;
He shouts aloud, No intervention !
Invades, and drowns them all in tears.
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Landor, Walter Savage. “A Foreign Ruler.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/213/.
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Landor, Walter Savage. “A Foreign Ruler.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/213/.
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