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THE DEATH OF MADAME ROLAND by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR

Poet Analysis

First Line: GENIUS AND VIRTUE! DISMAL WAS THE DEARTH
Last Line: THERE WAS BUT ONE GREAT SOUL, AND THAT HAD FLOWN.
Subject(s): ROLAND, JEANNE-MARIE (1754-1793);
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.



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