Rossetti Archive Textual Transcription
Document Title: After the German Subjugation of France (Duke University corrected fair copy)
Author: Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Date of Composition: 1871
Type of Manuscript: corrected fair copy
Scribe: DGR
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- 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 & crowned.
- Lo 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
- T One scornful gamut of tumultuous sound?
- For lo! now the harlot's heart on a new sleeve
- 10 Is prankt; and her heart's lord of yesterday
- eyes that yet shall grieve
- Spurned from her bed, whose purple gauds o'erlay
- This hour exult to watch his babe at play
- Such fretwork as the busy worm can weave
- Takes in his ears the vanished world's last yell,
- And in his flesh the shutting teeth of Hell.
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Added Textwhose worm-spun silks o'erlay
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Added TextSuch fretwork as that other worm can weave
Manuscript Addition: Lots
Editorial Description: Written on the left lower corner perpendicular to the poem's text.
Electronic Archive Edition: 1
Source File:
30-1871.dukems.rad.xml
Copyright: By permission of the Special Collections Library, Duke University