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XCVII. A GROUP AFTER SIGNORELLI.
With sleek oiled curls and studied attitude,Most daintily upon an altar stands
Smooth Antichrist; a demon his commands
Prompting behind him; at his feet are strewed
Great heaps of gold; a various multitude
Listens around well pleased, or talks in bands;
Whilst one explains at length, and one demands;
And all accept his specious servitude.—
Stern Luca Signorelli, satyre's lord,
This age's Antichrist is grown more bold,
And asks a broader sweep of thy bare sword;
For souls of men and women now are sold
In viler slavery to the harpy horde
Of Greed and Avarice and Lust of Gold.
Orvieto, October 1867.
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