The Land of Grimney - The Illustrated Adventures of Cora Pearl, aged 12

Martius, cold Martius:
Your blood ran hot that day
Before the Senate saw you
And ordered you in clay.
Until then they knew you not
Nor yet you had been born,
But Fate came to change all that
In the shape of one sharp thorn.

The message long forgotten
The senators just bone,
But Martius! Here you are
In brass and bronze and stone.
So all pomp has perished:
Legates, Senate, Kings;
While the courage of a shepherd lad
Still down through time it rings.

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"Never look down on a man unless you're helping him up." Jessie Jackson