XX

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

She tore the Prophet after death,

And the people paid her well.

Lightnings flicker'd along the heath;

One shriek'd 'The fires of Hell!

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