Versos English Anonymous On a Late Parricide

English poem

On a Late Parricide

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Detested deed! what rites shall purge the land, Where dies the parent by the daughter's hand? Fell tygers rend the lamb and sportive kid, Yet hold the slaughter of their race forbid. O grant me instinct! if from reason flows A fierceness more than savage nature knows.