THE

POETICAL WORKS

OF

ROBERT SOUTHEY.

IN TEN VOLUMES.

VOLUME IX.

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RODERICK,

THE LAST OF THE GOTHS.

A TRAGIC POEM.

Tanto acrior apud majores, sicut virtutibus gloria, ita flagitiis poenitentia, fuit. Sed hæc aliaque, ex veteri memoriâ petita, quotiens res locusque exempla recti, aut solatia mali, poscet, haud absurdè memorabimus. - TACITI Hist. lib. iii. c. 51.