Here you will find thePoemAfter The German Subjugation Of France, 1871of poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti
LO the twelfth year?the wedding-feast come round With years for months?and lo the babe new-born; Out of the womb's rank furnace cast forlorn, And with contagious effluence seamed and crown'd. To hail this birth, what fiery tongues surround Hell's Pentecost?what clamour of all cries That swell, from Absalom's scoff to Shimei's, One scornful gamut of tumultuous sound! For now the harlot's heart on a new sleeve Is prankt; and her heart's lord of yesterday (Spurned from her bed, whose worm-spun silks o'erlay Such fretwork as that other worm can weave) Takes in his ears the vanished world's last yell, And in his flesh the closing teeth of Hell.
