Sword On The Battlefield Poem by Emmanuel George Cefai

They laid on him
The sword of honors
Proud he rose
With hawk eyes
Looked around
On the foot soldiers
Idolizing.

Ah! they laid on him
The sword of honors
To chase and murder
[As hunting foxes, birds
Nobles in their immense
Woods]
The strong over
Less strong
The deft over less
Deft
The cunning
Over less cunning:

Then said the Historian
‘But that was long,
Long ago’
Then said the Philosopher
‘Rethink, my friend,
Rethink’
And they stopped there.