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CONCERNING EMPERORS: 1. GOD SENT THE REGICIDE by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY

Poet Analysis

First Line: WOULD THAT THE LYING RULERS OF THE WORLD
Last Line: GOD SEND THE REGICIDE.
Subject(s): COURTS & COURTIERS; WORLD WAR I; ROYAL COURT LIFE; ROYALTY; KINGS; QUEENS; FIRST WORLD WAR;

Would that the lying rulers of the world
Were brought to block for tyrannies abhorred.
Would that the sword of Cromwell and the Lord,
The sword of Joshua and Gideon,
Hewed hip and thigh the hosts of Midian.
God send that ironside ere tomorrow's sun;
Let Gabriel and Michael with him ride.
God send the Regicide.



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