Living

Seeing Loreto's Holyhouse Descend

by Walter Savage Landor 1775–1864

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

Living

Seeing Loreto's holyhouse descend,
Two robbers were converted. Into what?
Into more robbers; robbers without end,
Who grind men's bones and feed upon men's fat.

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Landor, Walter Savage. “Seeing Loreto's Holyhouse Descend.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/557/.

Chicago

Landor, Walter Savage. “Seeing Loreto's Holyhouse Descend.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/557/.

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