Algernon Swinburne/Hymn to Proserpine
Hymn to Proserpine is a poem by Algernon Charles Swinburne.
The poem is cast in the form of a lament by a person professing the paganism of classical antiquity, and expresses regret at the rise of Christianity. It opens with the words Vicisti, Galilæe, Latin for "You have conquered, O Galilean," a sentiment extended in the English text of the poem itself:
- Thou hast conquered, O pale Galilean; the world has grown grey from thy breath;
- We have drunken of things Lethean, and fed on the fullness of death.
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