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Nile (search for this): book 8, card 331
als of the rout: 'Red is yon wall where passed their headless trunks; 'Euphrates here engulfed them, Tigris there ' Cast up to perish. Gaze on such array, 'And thou canst supplicate at Caesar's feet ' In mid Thessalia seated. Nay, thy glance ' Turn on the Roman world, and if thou fear'st King Juba faithless and the southern realms, Then seek we Pharos. Egypt on the west Girt by the trackless Syrtes forces back By sevenfold stream the ocean; rich in glebe And gold and merchandise; and proud of Nile Asks for no rain from heaven. Now holds this boy Her sceptre, owed to thee; his guardian thou : And who shall fear this shadow of a name? Hope not from monarchs old, whose shame is fled, Or laws or troth or honour of the gods: New kings bring mildest sway.'Thus rendered by Thomas May, of the Long Parliament: Men used to sceptres are ashamed of nought: The mildest governement a kingdome finds Under new kings. His words prevailed Upon his hearers. With what freedom speaks, When states are trem
Parthia (Iran) (search for this): book 8, card 331
. The tale of that one crime ' Of old by OEdipus unwitting wrought ' Made nations shudder at the name of Thebes: ' How many an offspring of such foul embrace Has held the Parthian throne? Where incest's right 'What shall be wickedness? This gracious dame 'Born of Metellus, noblest blood of Rome, 'Shall share the couch of the barbarian king ' With thousand others: yet in savage joy, 'Proud of her former husbands, he may grant 'Some larger share of favour; and the fates May seem to smile on Parthia; for the spouse ' Of Crassus, captive, shall to him be brought ' As spoil of former conquest. If the wound ' Dealt in that fell defeat in eastern lands ' Still stirs thy heart, then double is the shame 'First to have waged the war upon ourselves, ' Then ask the foe for succour. For what blame ' Can rest on thee or Caesar worse than this, 'That in the clash of conflict ye forgot ' For Crassus' slaughtered troops the vengeance due? 'First should united Rome upon the Mede 'Have poured her capt
Babylon (Iraq) (search for this): book 8, card 331
Then ask the foe for succour. For what blame ' Can rest on thee or Caesar worse than this, 'That in the clash of conflict ye forgot ' For Crassus' slaughtered troops the vengeance due? 'First should united Rome upon the Mede 'Have poured her captains, and the troops who guard 'The northern frontier from the Dacian hordes; 'And all her legions should have left the Rhine 'Free to the Teuton, till the Parthian dead ' Were piled in heaps upon the sands that hide ' Our heroes slain; and haughty Babylon 'Lay at her victor's feet. To this foul peace 'We pray an end; and if Thessalia's day 'Has closed our warfare, let the conqueror march 'Straight on our Parthian foe. Then should this heart, 'Then only, leap at Caesar's triumph won. 'Go thou and pass Araxes' chilly stream 'On this thine errand; and the mournful ghost 'Pierced by the Scythian shaft shall greet thee thus: ' "Dost thou, to whom our wandering shades have looked '" For vengeance and for war, seek from the foe '"A treaty and a pea
Mede (Italy) (search for this): book 8, card 331
winds may suffer, from afar ' They draw their bows at venture. Brave men love ' The sword which, wielded by a stalwart arm, ' Drives home the blow and makes the battle sure. ' Not such their weapons; and the first assault ' Shall force the flying Mede with coward hand 'And empty quiver from the field. His faith ' In poisoned blades is placed; but trustest thou ' Those who without such aid refuse the war? ' For such alliance wilt thou risk a death, ' With all the world between thee and thy home?d the war upon ourselves, ' Then ask the foe for succour. For what blame ' Can rest on thee or Caesar worse than this, 'That in the clash of conflict ye forgot ' For Crassus' slaughtered troops the vengeance due? 'First should united Rome upon the Mede 'Have poured her captains, and the troops who guard 'The northern frontier from the Dacian hordes; 'And all her legions should have left the Rhine 'Free to the Teuton, till the Parthian dead ' Were piled in heaps upon the sands that hide ' Our her
Thebes (Greece) (search for this): book 8, card 331
rishing? E'en that were shame ' While Crassus seeks a sepulchre in vain. ' Thy lot is happy; death, unfeared by men, ' Is thy worst doom, Pompeius; but no death ' Awaits Cornelia-such a fate for her ' This king shall not reserve; for know not we ' The hateful secrets of barbarian love, ' Blind as of savage beasts? That palace knows ' No laws of kin: the royal bed is foul ' With concubines. The tale of that one crime ' Of old by OEdipus unwitting wrought ' Made nations shudder at the name of Thebes: ' How many an offspring of such foul embrace Has held the Parthian throne? Where incest's right 'What shall be wickedness? This gracious dame 'Born of Metellus, noblest blood of Rome, 'Shall share the couch of the barbarian king ' With thousand others: yet in savage joy, 'Proud of her former husbands, he may grant 'Some larger share of favour; and the fates May seem to smile on Parthia; for the spouse ' Of Crassus, captive, shall to him be brought ' As spoil of former conquest. If the wou
Thessaly (Greece) (search for this): book 8, card 331
all her legions should have left the Rhine 'Free to the Teuton, till the Parthian dead ' Were piled in heaps upon the sands that hide ' Our heroes slain; and haughty Babylon 'Lay at her victor's feet. To this foul peace 'We pray an end; and if Thessalia's day 'Has closed our warfare, let the conqueror march 'Straight on our Parthian foe. Then should this heart, 'Then only, leap at Caesar's triumph won. 'Go thou and pass Araxes' chilly stream 'On this thine errand; and the mournful ghost 'Piercre profuse Shall meet thee sad memorials of the rout: 'Red is yon wall where passed their headless trunks; 'Euphrates here engulfed them, Tigris there ' Cast up to perish. Gaze on such array, 'And thou canst supplicate at Caesar's feet ' In mid Thessalia seated. Nay, thy glance ' Turn on the Roman world, and if thou fear'st King Juba faithless and the southern realms, Then seek we Pharos. Egypt on the west Girt by the trackless Syrtes forces back By sevenfold stream the ocean; rich in glebe And
Sarmatia (search for this): book 8, card 331
lead thy columns? Shall the only king ' Who failed Emathia, while the fates yet hid 'Their favouring voices, brave the victor's power, ' And join with thine his fortune? Nay, not so 'This nation trusts itself. Each race that claims ' A northern birth, unconquered in the fray ' Claims but the warrior's death; but as the sky ' Slopes towards the eastern tracts and gentler climes ' So are the nations. There in flowing robes ' And garments delicate are men arrayed. 'True that the Parthian in Sarmatia's plains, ' Where Tigris spreads across the level meads, ' Contends invincible; for flight is his ' Unbounded; but should uplands bar his path ' He scales them not; nor through the night of war ' Shall his weak bow uncertain in its aim ' Repel the foeman; nor his strength of arm ' The torrent stem; nor all a summer's day ' In dust and blood bear up against the foe. ' They fill no hostile trench, nor in their hands ' Shall battering engine or machine of war ' Dash down the rampart; and whate
Egypt (Egypt) (search for this): book 8, card 331
ring shades have looked '" For vengeance and for war, seek from the foe '"A treaty and a peace? " And there profuse Shall meet thee sad memorials of the rout: 'Red is yon wall where passed their headless trunks; 'Euphrates here engulfed them, Tigris there ' Cast up to perish. Gaze on such array, 'And thou canst supplicate at Caesar's feet ' In mid Thessalia seated. Nay, thy glance ' Turn on the Roman world, and if thou fear'st King Juba faithless and the southern realms, Then seek we Pharos. Egypt on the west Girt by the trackless Syrtes forces back By sevenfold stream the ocean; rich in glebe And gold and merchandise; and proud of Nile Asks for no rain from heaven. Now holds this boy Her sceptre, owed to thee; his guardian thou : And who shall fear this shadow of a name? Hope not from monarchs old, whose shame is fled, Or laws or troth or honour of the gods: New kings bring mildest sway.'Thus rendered by Thomas May, of the Long Parliament: Men used to sceptres are ashamed of nought:
Tigris (search for this): book 8, card 331
ur Parthian foe. Then should this heart, 'Then only, leap at Caesar's triumph won. 'Go thou and pass Araxes' chilly stream 'On this thine errand; and the mournful ghost 'Pierced by the Scythian shaft shall greet thee thus: ' "Dost thou, to whom our wandering shades have looked '" For vengeance and for war, seek from the foe '"A treaty and a peace? " And there profuse Shall meet thee sad memorials of the rout: 'Red is yon wall where passed their headless trunks; 'Euphrates here engulfed them, Tigris there ' Cast up to perish. Gaze on such array, 'And thou canst supplicate at Caesar's feet ' In mid Thessalia seated. Nay, thy glance ' Turn on the Roman world, and if thou fear'st King Juba faithless and the southern realms, Then seek we Pharos. Egypt on the west Girt by the trackless Syrtes forces back By sevenfold stream the ocean; rich in glebe And gold and merchandise; and proud of Nile Asks for no rain from heaven. Now holds this boy Her sceptre, owed to thee; his guardian thou : And w
Rhine (search for this): book 8, card 331
that fell defeat in eastern lands ' Still stirs thy heart, then double is the shame 'First to have waged the war upon ourselves, ' Then ask the foe for succour. For what blame ' Can rest on thee or Caesar worse than this, 'That in the clash of conflict ye forgot ' For Crassus' slaughtered troops the vengeance due? 'First should united Rome upon the Mede 'Have poured her captains, and the troops who guard 'The northern frontier from the Dacian hordes; 'And all her legions should have left the Rhine 'Free to the Teuton, till the Parthian dead ' Were piled in heaps upon the sands that hide ' Our heroes slain; and haughty Babylon 'Lay at her victor's feet. To this foul peace 'We pray an end; and if Thessalia's day 'Has closed our warfare, let the conqueror march 'Straight on our Parthian foe. Then should this heart, 'Then only, leap at Caesar's triumph won. 'Go thou and pass Araxes' chilly stream 'On this thine errand; and the mournful ghost 'Pierced by the Scythian shaft shall greet thee
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