English poem
Poem 25 (Whatever fortune God may send…)
by Mary Elizabeth Coleridge (1861–1907)
Whatever fortune God may send, For once I set the world to rights,
And that was when I thrust you down, And stabbed you twice and twice again, Because you dared take off your crown, And be a man like other men.
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