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BORGIA, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There was no borgia venom; gandia fell
Last Line: The fields of christendom a borgian bull.
Subject(s): Borgia, Lucrezia [lucretia] (1480-1519); Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


THERE was no Borgia venom; Gandia fell
Under no sword of Caesar's; doubtless, so.
And our cool judgements are content to know
That such a marriage group of heaven and hell
Was never throned within the Italian sell,
Nor evil brimmed to such an overflow.
But our magnificent dreams around the glow
Of infinite wickedness compass still, where dwell
Pomps of our own undared impossible sin,
Tumultuously potent, marvellously beautiful;
Where, in a superhuman mystery
Of Christ and Lucifer, bearing those dire three,
The Pope and the Pope's children, ramps within
The fields of Christendom a Borgian bull.





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