History & Politics
Excommunication Denounced on January 30, 1850
From Heroic Idyls (1863)
History & Politics
Cursed be the wretch who snarls
At the blessed martyr Charles,
And who traitorously opposes
Slitting ears and shortening noses.
Fifty thousand Devils scourge
The blasphemers of Saint George.
Let our Church with annual rites
Celebrate the first of knights,
While the choir more loudly sings
Glory to the best of kings !
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MLA
Landor, Walter Savage. “Excommunication Denounced on January 30, 1850.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/218/.
Chicago
Landor, Walter Savage. “Excommunication Denounced on January 30, 1850.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/218/.
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