...oken thy spirit so? One day's defeat ' Condemned the world to ruin? Is the cause ' Lost in one battle and beyond recall? ' Find we no cure for wounds? Does Fortune drive ' Thee, Magnus, to the Parthia ns' feet alone? ' And dost thou, fugitive, spurn the lands and skies ' Known heretofore, and seek for other poles ' And constellations, and Chaldean gods, ' And rites barbarian, servant of the rea...