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CANTO VIII

Camarilla

More powerful than ministries
Or any Potentate,
The secret Camarilla
Ruled, too, the Russian State.

Preserve us, Lord—Shumavsky,[1]
The glorious contender!
For every Camarilla seems
To be of female gender.

  1. A Radical of Havlicek’s era.

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