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" By Heaven, had I the teeth of Caucasus
Red-hot from Promethean agonies,
And tusks more lucid than the lunar snows,
On those jagged lawns of Asia, cavernous
With many a dragon banquet-eyes like those
Minerva made of flint to shatter Jove--
I'd hurl their hate upon thee, and myself
Die in a red parabola of Fate!
--Ernest Wheldrake, The Monomaniac's Tragedy "

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Algernon Charles Swinburne quote : By Heaven, had I the teeth of Caucasus<br />Red-hot from Promethean agonies,<br />And tusks more lucid than the lunar snows,<br />On those jagged lawns of Asia, cavernous<br />With many a dragon banquet-eyes like those<br />Minerva made of flint to shatter Jove--<br />I'd hurl their hate upon thee, and myself<br />Die in a red parabola of Fate!<br />--Ernest Wheldrake, The Monomaniac's Tragedy