Macaulay’s Horatius at the Bridge
Lars Porsena of Clusium, by the Nine Gods he sworeThat the great house of Tarquin should suffer wrong no more.By the Nine Gods he swore it, and named a trysting day,And bade his messengers ride forth,East and West and South and North,To summon his array.East and West and South and North the messengers ride fast,And tower and town […]