Lines Composed...prince Regent Being Seen Standing Between Coffins Of Henry Viii

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Title:     Lines Composed...prince Regent Being Seen Standing Between Coffins Of Henry Viii
Author: Lord Byron [More Titles by Byron]

Lines composed on the Occasion of His Royal Highness the Prince Regent being seen standing between the Coffins of Henry VIII. and Charles I. at Windsor.

FAMED for contemptuous breach of sacred ties,
By headless Charles see heartless Henry lies;
Between them stands another sceptred thing--
It moves, it reigns--in all but name, a king:

Charles to his people, Henry to his wife,
--In him the double tyrant starts to life:
Justice and Death have mixed their dust in vain,
Each royal Vampire wakes to life again.
Ah, what can tombs avail!--since these disgorge
The blood and dust of both--to mould a George.[53]

[First published, _Poetical Works_, Paris, 1819, vi. 125.]

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Lord Byron's poem: Lines Composed...prince Regent Being Seen Standing Between Coffins Of Henry Viii And Charles I

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