III

by Alfred, Lord Tennyson · (no date)
Published 01/07/1880
Part of Freedom

For thou—when Athens reign'd and Rome,

Thy glorious eyes were dimm'd with pain

To mark in many a freeman's home

The slave, the scourge, the chain;

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