Death & Dying
The Death of Madame Roland
From Works and Life, ed. Forster, vol. VIII (1876)
Death & Dying
Genius and Virtue! dismal was the dearth
Ye saw throughout all France when ye lookt down.
In the wide waste of blood-besprinkled earth,
There was but one great soul, and that had flown.
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