History & Politics

Excommunication Denounced on January 30, 1850

by Walter Savage Landor 1775–1864

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 !

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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