Don Juan 04-105
Canto the Fourth
 
 CV

With human blood that column was cemented,
 With human filth that column is defiled,
As if the peasant's coarse contempt were vented
 To show his loathing of the spot he soil'd:
Thus is the trophy used, and thus lamented
 Should ever be those blood-hounds, from whose wild
Instinct of gore and glory earth has known
Those sufferings Dante saw in hell alone.

George Gordon Byron, Lord Byron (1788-1824) 
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