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The Tower
Nicholson, William Newzam Prior, 1898, Publisher's print
The Tower
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25018
Title
The Tower
Artist / maker
Nicholson, William Newzam Prior
Date
1898
Size
24.0 x 24.6 cm,
Type
Publisher's print
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Art and Design Library
THE TOWER
His beat lies knee-high through a dust of story-
A dust of terror and torture, grief and crime;
Ghosts that are ENGLAND's wonder, and shame, and glory,
Throng where he walks, an antic of old time;
A sense of long immedicable tears
Were ever with him, could his ears but heed;
The stern Hic Jacets of our bloodiest years
Are for his reading, had he eyes to read,
But here, where CROOKBACK raged, and CRANMER trimmed,
And MORE and STRAFFORD faced the axe's proving,
He shows that Crown the desperate Colonel nimmed,
Or simply keeps the Country Cousin moving,
And stays such Cockney pencillers as would shame
The wall where some dead Queen hath traced her name.
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