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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
BRITANNIA REJECTA, by HENRY KIRKE WHITE Poet's Biography
First Line: Where now is britain? - where her laurelled names
Last Line: The yell of deprecation.
Subject(s): Great Britain
First Line: Where now is britain? - where her laurelled names
Last Line: The yell of deprecation.
Subject(s): Great Britain
WHERE now is Britain?—where her laurelled names,
Her palaces and halls? Dashed in the dust.
Some second Vandal hath reduced her pride,
And with one big recoil hath thrown her back
To primitive barbarity.—Again,
Through her depopulated vales, the scream
Of bloody superstition hollow rings,
And the scared native to the tempest howls
The yell of deprecation.
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