XVIII

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

She crouch'd, she tore him part from part,

And out of his body she drew

The red 'Blood-eagle' of liver and heart;

She held them up to the view;

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