Poems (Mary Coleridge)/Poem 25

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XXV MORTAL COMBAT
It is because you were my friend,
 I fought you as the devil fights.
 ​Whatever fortune God may send,
 For once I set the world to rights,

And that was when I thrust you down,
 And stabbed you twice and twice again,
Because you dared take off your crown,
 And be a man like other men.

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