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The Sack of Rome<br />

Canto 1<br />

The march of Islam, the birth of Japan<br />

& the battle of Ronceveaux<br />

Two chieftans leave the palatial table<br />

Viziers of Visigoth & Vandal,<br />

Colluded Romeʹs empire drifts unstable<br />

Deluded thro orgiastic scandal;<br />

They fetterʹd hands,<br />

ʺLetʹs drain this corpse of blood!ʺ<br />

Then left for native lands, fated & understood.<br />

First Vandal shakes the verve of Gaul,<br />

Breaks flacid Iberia,<br />

Then sailing seas of silver shoal,<br />

Vanquishes North Africa,<br />

Forcing Romeʹs Forum to recall<br />

Forces from Britannia ‐<br />

Where Celt experiences liberty<br />

With growing sense of incredulity.<br />

God of our fathers, what is man!<br />

That thou towards him with hand so various...<br />

Temperʹst thy providence through his short cause<br />

Protion of that princely bargain<br />

Owed by the Gothic horde<br />

Whose shocking sin floweth sanguine<br />

Bringing Asgard abroad,<br />

To sack a mighty capital & lick the crimson sword.<br />

Italia<br />

410<br />

John Milton

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