Relationships
XVI
From Poems and Ballads (Third Series)
Relationships
Calm as our mother-land, the mother
Of faith and freedom, pure and wise,
Keeps watch beneath unchangeful skies,
When hath she watched the woes of other
Strange lands with alien eyes?
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Swinburne, Algernon Charles. “XVI.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/swinburne/223/.
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Swinburne, Algernon Charles. “XVI.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/swinburne/223/.
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