Algernon Charles Swinburne quote: Here now in his triumph where all things falter, Stretched out on the spoils that his own hand spread,As a ...

Here now in his triumph where all things falter, Stretched out on the spoils that his own hand spread,As a god self-slain on his own strange altar, Death lies dead.

~ Algernon Charles Swinburne ~

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