Religion
Primus Miles
From Poems & Ballads (First Series)
Religion
I bid you make good cheer to be
So fair a queen as all men see.
And hold us for your lieges free;
By Peter's soul that hath the key,
Ye have good hap of it.
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MLA
Swinburne, Algernon Charles. “Primus Miles.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/swinburne/540/.
Chicago
Swinburne, Algernon Charles. “Primus Miles.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/swinburne/540/.
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