History & Politics
On Receiving News of the Death of Charles I.
From Scottish Poetry of the Seventeenth Century, ed. George Eyre-Todd (1895)
History & Politics
Great, Good, and Just, could I but rate
My grief with thy too rigid fate,
I'd weep the world in such a strain
As it should deluge once again.
But since thy loud-tongued blood demands supplies
More from Briareus' hands than Argus' eyes,
I'll sing thine obsequies with trumpet sounds
And write thine epitaph in blood and wounds.
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Graham, James, Marquess of Montrose. “On Receiving News of the Death of Charles I.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/montrose/1/.
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Graham, James, Marquess of Montrose. “On Receiving News of the Death of Charles I.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/montrose/1/.
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