T R A N S L A T I O N
[by A. B Grosart]


On the Portrait of Oliver Cromwell

Before this shadow oft his en'mies fled;
Beneath it lives secure the people led.


Source:
Marvell, Andrew.The Complete Poems.
George deF. Lord, Ed.
London: J. M. Dent & Sons, Ltd., 1984. 247.

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