Poem A Day

On a Royal Visit to the Vaults. or Caesar's Discovery of C.I. and H. 8. in Ye Same Vault

by George Gordon, Lord Byron

FAMED for their civil and domestic quarrels

See heartless Henry lies by headless Charles;

Between them stands another sceptred thing,

It lives, it reigns--"aye, every inch 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.

The royal Vampires join and rise again.

What now can tombs avail, since these disgorge

The blood and dirt of both to mould a George!

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