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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
First Line: Great, good and just, could I but rate
Last Line: And write thy epitaph in blood and wounds!
Alternate Author Name(s): Montrose, 1st Marquis Of
Variant Title(s): Lines On The Execution Of Charles I;upon The Death Of King Charles I;his Metrical Vow (on The Death Of Charles I)
Subject(s): Charles I, King Of England (1600-1649)
Great, good and just, could I but rate
My grief to thy too rigid fate!
I'd weep the world in a such a strain,
As it would once deluge again:
But since thy loud-tongu'd blood demands supplies,
More from Briareus hands, than Argus eyes,
I'll tune thy elegies to trumpet sounds,
And write thy epitaph in blood and wounds!
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