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The Gladiator and the Lady

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Category
Historical and Observational
SectionPoetry for Friends

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When I was a boy in Britain and you were a girl in Rome,Forests and mountains lay between, and the hungry, restless foam.Today naught lay between us, only the wall, at least,That guards the proud patrician from the slave and the dying beast.

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