The Duke of Gandia by Algernon Charles Swinburne
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That dims the sweetest eyes love ever lit
With light that mocks the morning? VANNOZZA Nay, my lord, I know not--nay, I knew not if I wept. ALEXANDER Our sons and Christ's and Peter's whom we praise, Are they--are these--fallen out? FRANCESCO Not I with him, Nor he, I think, with me. CAESAR Forbid it, God! The God that set thee where thou art, and there Sustains thee, bids the love he kindles bind Brother to brother. ALEXANDER God or no God, man Must live and let man live--while one man's life Galls not another's. Fools and fiends are men |
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