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First Line: Red hand, black heart, beast with the dragon's face
Last Line: The outraged nations' deep anathema!
Subject(s): Anarchism And Anarchists; Elizabeth. Empress Of Austria (1837-98); Regicide


Red hand, black heart, beast with the dragon's face;
Thou hundred-headed horror breathing death
And dole across the fair world's rounded space,
Blurring the wholesome sun with tainted breath,
Back to thine ancient slime, blind whelp of wrath!
Amid the dragons of the prime, thy place;
Thy law the lust of tooth and claw; thy path,
Like Lucifer's to gaping Hell's embrace!

Black heart, red hand smiting her queenly breast,
Thinking in rabid rage to rend the law,
Blind as the snarling tiger in his quest
For prey; from her spent blood shall Justice draw
Swift strength to hurl upon thy viper's nest
The outraged nations' deep anathema!





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