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WRITTEN ON A MARBLE by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD

Poet Analysis

First Line: THE WORLD'S SOMETHING BIGGER
Last Line: WAS ONLY A GAME AT TAW.
Subject(s): HEROISM; HEROES; HEROINES;
The world's something bigger,
But just of this figure
And speckled with mountains and seas;
Your heroes are overgrown schoolboys
Who scuffle for empires and toys,
And kick the poor ball as they please.
Now Caesar, now Pompey, gives law;
And Pharsalia's plain,
Though heaped with the slain,
Was only a game at taw.



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