Love

Two Cackling Mothers Hatch Two Separate Broods

by Walter Savage Landor 1775–1864

From Works and Life, ed. Forster, vol. VIII (1876)

Love

Two cackling mothers hatch two separate broods
Of patriots; neither shall infest my house.
I shun the noisier, but I loathe far more
Patriots with tags about their carcases
Bedolled with bits of ribbon and rag-lace,
Or dangling, dainty, jewel'd crucifix
The puft heart's pride, and not its purifier.
Limbs, lives, and fortunes, all before the king,
Until he ask the hazard of the same;
Then the two broods unite, one step, one voice,
For their dear country in its sad estate.

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Landor, Walter Savage. “Two Cackling Mothers Hatch Two Separate Broods.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/502/.

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Landor, Walter Savage. “Two Cackling Mothers Hatch Two Separate Broods.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/502/.

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