After the French Liberation of Italy (Princeton Library proof copy) Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1 Used with permission of Princeton University. From the Princeton University Library, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections. All rights reserved. Redistribution or republication in any medium requires express written consent from Princeton University Library. Permissions inquiries should be addressed to Associate University Librarian, Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library. After the French Liberation of Italy Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1869 fair copy 1 page William Sharp Princeton University Library 23270 Commentary
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This is one of the surviving revise proof copies of DGR's 1859 sonnet. It is identical to the uncorrected proof copies at Arizona and in the Arendts Collection, as well as the proof copies in the Manx Museum, the Huntington, and the British Library. The text was first printed in and then removed from the two copies of the Penkill proofs.

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After the French Liberation of Italy As when the last of the paid joys of love Has come and gone; and with a single kiss At length, and with one laugh of satiate bliss, The wearied man a minute rests above The wearied woman, no more urged to move In those long throes of longing; till they glide, Now lightlier clasped, each to the other's side, In joys past acting, not past dreaming of: — So Europe now beneath this paramour Lies for a little out of use, —full oft Submissive to his lust, a loveless whore. He wakes, she sleeps, the breath falls slow & soft. Wait: the bought body holds a birth within, An harlot's child, to scourge her for her sin! D.G.R. 1859