profaned

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Old gods are dead; their broken shrines are lying Profaned with blood and trampled to the ground; I see lost beauty with each sunset dying, I hear lost music in each echoing sound.

From Acanthus and Wild Grape by Call, Frank Oliver

Degenerate sons of noble sires, by baleful, wild, fanatic fires, And madden’d folly mov’d, Profaned their Hero’s sacred dust—betrayed their country’s sacred trust, And double traitors proved.

From Southern War Songs Camp-Fire, Patriotic and Sentimental by Various

But midst the mouldering relics of the dead In shapes fantastic, which the brethren rear, Profaned by heretic’s unhallowed tread, The monkish skeletons erect appear.

From The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Vol. I by Reeve, Henry

All say, that justly had Laocoon died, And paid fit penalty, whose guilty spear Profaned the steed and pierced the sacred side.

From The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor by Taylor, Edward Fairfax

Profaned their altars and their rites, The pity of your gods our lot excites.

From Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes by Wright, Elizur