Versos English Algernon Charles Swinburne Viii

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I for instance might groan as a bag-pipe groans, Give the flesh of my heart for sharp sorrows to flagellate, Grief might grind my cheeks down, age make sticks of my bones, (Though a queen drowned in tears must be worth more than Madge elate) Rose might turn burdock, and pine-apples cones;