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Poems, Dialogues in Verse and Epigrams

By Walter Savage Landor: Edited with notes by Charles G. Crump

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XVIII. THE DEATH OF MADAME ROLAND.

Genius and Virtue! dismal was the dearth
Ye saw throughout all France when ye lookt down.
In the wide waste of blood-besprinkled earth,
There was but one great soul, and that had flown.