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BROOK OF SANGUINETTO,
NEAR THE LAKE OF THRASYMENE.
We win, where least we care to strive;
And where the most we strive—we miss.
Old Hannibal, if now alive,
Might sadly testify to this.
And where the most we strive—we miss.
Old Hannibal, if now alive,
Might sadly testify to this.
He lost the Rome, for which he came;
And—what he never had in petto—
Won for this little brook a name—
Its mournful name of Sanguinetto.
And—what he never had in petto—
Won for this little brook a name—
Its mournful name of Sanguinetto.
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