Anna Laetitia Barbauld - Written On A Marble lyrics

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Anna Laetitia Barbauld - Written On A Marble lyrics

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 Cæsar, now Pompey, gives law; And Pharsalia's plain, Though heaped with the slain, Was only a game at taw.