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1837–1909

STROPHE 4

Algernon Charles Swinburne

Who is this that rises red with wounds and splendid, All her breast and brow made beautiful with scars, Burning bare as naked daylight, undefended, In her hands for spoils her splintered prison-bars,

In her eyes the light and fire of long pain ended, In her lips a song as of the morning stars?

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