Thursday, April 04, 2024
A Grave Was All My Gain
F.L. Lucas, "On a Boeotian Mercenary of Alexander, Fallen in Media," Poems, 1935 (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1935), p. 13:
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We served the Macedonian. The Great King fled before us,
The world was ours for winning. A grave was all my gain.
From Hellespont to Ganges we marched—could it restore us
The freedom of our fathers, though we forged all Asia's chain?
Better than golden Susa wast thou, poor land that bore us,
The little Vale of Thisbe than this gaunt Median Plain.
