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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LEOPOLD OF BELGIUM, by WILLIAM WATSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Khalifs and khans have we beheld, who trod
Last Line: Trumpet his name, and flood his deeds with day.
Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William
Subject(s): Death; Earth; Time; Dead, The; World
First Line: Khalifs and khans have we beheld, who trod
Last Line: Trumpet his name, and flood his deeds with day.
Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William
Subject(s): Death; Earth; Time; Dead, The; World
KHALIFS and Khans have we beheld, who trod
The people as one neck beneath their heel;
Whose revel was the woe they could not feel,
Whose pastime was the dripping scourge and rod;
Who shook swift death on thousands with a nod,
And made mankind as stubble to their steel;
Who slew for Faith and Heaven, in dreadful zeal
To pleasure Him whom they mistook for God.
No zeal, no Faith inspired this Leopold,
Nor any madness of half-splendid birth.
Merely he loosed the hounds that rend and slay
That he might have his fill of loathsome gold.
Embalm him, Time! Forget him not, O Earth!
Trumpet his name, and flood his deeds with day.
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