 Even beasts must be with justice slain; Else men are made their deodands. Though they should wash their guilty hands In this warm life-blood which doth part From thine, and wound me to the heart, Yet could they not be clean; their stain Is dyed in such...  Poetical Works: With Memoir of the Author - Page 45by Andrew Marvell - 1870 - 208 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Virginia Graham - 1996 - 260 pages
...nothing may we use in vain. E'en beasts must be with justice slain, Else men are made their deodands. Though they should wash their guilty hands In this warm life-blood, which doth part 24 offer for their sin - ironically, the troopers have killed the only thing whose innocent purity... | |
 | Richard Jacobs - 2001 - 504 pages
...nothing may we use in vain. E'en beasts must be with justice slain, Else men are made their deodands. Though they should wash their guilty hands In this warm life-blood, which doth part 20 From thine, and wound me to the heart, Yet could they not be clean: their stain Is dyed in such... | |
 | Rod Preece - 2002 - 436 pages
...nothing may we use in vain. Ev'n Beasts must be with justice slain. Else men are made their Deodands* Though they should wash their guilty hands In this...Heart, Yet could they not be clean; their Stain Is dy'd in such a Purple Grain. There is not such another in The World to offer for their Sin.82 John... | |
 | Thomas Chatterton, Grevel Lindop - 200 pages
...nothing may we use in vain. Even beasts must be with justice slain; Else men are made their deodands. Though they should wash their guilty hands In this warm life-blood, which doth part 20 From thine, and wound me to the heart, Yet could they not be clean: their stain Is dyed in such... | |
 | M. Thomas Hester, Christopher Cobb - 2003 - 170 pages
...that she envisions the fawn as a type of Christ and the troopers as the soldiers at Calvary—"their stain / Is dyed in such a purple grain, / There is...such another in / The world, to offer for their sin" (214)—an effort that also turns her into a type of the mourning Madonna. It is that she is forced... | |
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