History & Politics
Written on Milton's Defence, Pro Populo Anglicano
From Heroic Idyls (1863)
History & Politics
Iberians ! Belgians I Gauls ! ye rage in vain,
Cromwell shall rule the land, and Blake the main.
A greater man, if greater man there be,
Milton, hath undersign'd the Lord's decree.
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Landor, Walter Savage. “Written on Milton's Defence, Pro Populo Anglicano.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/222/.
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Landor, Walter Savage. “Written on Milton's Defence, Pro Populo Anglicano.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/222/.
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