 | Collected poems by Vachel Lindsay |  |
Said Set, the Great Accuser: “You poisoned your young brothers.”
But the mummy of Cleopatra whispered: “These were the slanders of Rome.”
“You poisoned your faithful servants, you sold the Nile to Cæsar.”
But the mummy of Cleopatra whispered: “These were the slanders of Rome.”
“You gambled with Marc Antony for the last wheat in Egypt,
And for the last blood of Egypt.”
But the mummy of Cleopatra whispered: “These were the slanders of Rome.”
But the mummy of Cleopatra whispered: “These were the slanders of Rome.”
“You poisoned your faithful servants, you sold the Nile to Cæsar.”
But the mummy of Cleopatra whispered: “These were the slanders of Rome.”
“You gambled with Marc Antony for the last wheat in Egypt,
And for the last blood of Egypt.”
But the mummy of Cleopatra whispered: “These were the slanders of Rome.”
| Collected poems by Vachel Lindsay | |