Rossetti Archive Textual Transcription
Document Title: On a Handful of French Money
Author: Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Date of Composition: 1879-1880
Type of Manuscript: fair copy
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- These coins that jostle on my hand do own
- No single image; each name here & date
- Denoting in man's consciousness & state
- New change. In some, the face is clearly known,
- In others marred. The badge of that old throne
- Of kings is on the obverse; or the sign
- Which says, “Behold, I, France am only mine;”
- Or else the Eagle that dared ever soar.
- Even as these coins, so are these lives and years
- 10 Mixed and bewildered; yet has each of them
- No less its part in what has come to be
- For France. Republic, Empire, Monarchy,—
- Each clamours or keeps silence in her name,
- And lives within the pulse that now is hers.
Electronic Archive Edition: 1
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