They built the wall because they feared a war.
\nThe soldiers served the whim of psychopaths
\nand soon abandoned dreams of steaming baths,
\ncivilized orchards, and barbarian whores.<\/p>\n
They wrote their wives at first, promising that,
\nthe danger past, in triumph they’d march home
\nwith gold enough to pave the streets of Rome.
\nThey meant to spend their old age growing fat.<\/p>\n
But year on year, the legion stood its stations.
\nTheir swords grew rusty and their horses lame.
\nSome said they’d been forgotten on the wall,
\nsome that the politicians were to blame.
\nThe generals died, the privates ate half-rations.
\nLike living dead, they waited for the fall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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