Algernon Charles Swinburne,
Songs of the Springtides
(1880)
“ On the proposed desecration of Westminster Abbeyby the erection of a monumentto the son of Napoleon III. 'Let us go hence.' From the inmost shrine of grace Where England hold the elect of her dead There comes a word like one of old time said By gods of old cast out. Here is no place At once for these and one of poisonous race. Let each rise up from his dishallowed bed And pass forth silent. Each divine veiled head Shall speak in silence with averted face. ”
