Nell Gwyn
Algernon Charles Swinburne
1837 to 1909
Track 1
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Of a master whom chance could inflame or assuage,
Gives thanks, and will hear not if history snarls
To the likeness of courtiers whose consciences falter
At the smile or the frown, at the mirth or the rage,
Our Lady of Laughter, invoked in no psalter,
Praise be with thee yet from a hag-ridden age.
Could touch with unclean transformation, or alter
When the name of the friend of her sailors is spoken;
And thy lover she cannot but love—by the token
Our Lady of Pity thou wast: and to thee
All England, whose sons are the sons of the sea,
Sweet heart, that no taint of the throne or the stage
Adored of no faithful that cringe and that palter,
That thy name was the last on the lips of King Charles.
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