Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Africa: Vol. XXIV. 1876–79. | | | | The Barbary States: Carthage | | Carthage | | Friedrich von Schiller (1759–1805) |
| | Translated by J. H. Merivale
O DEGENERATE child of a kind compassionate mother, | |
| That to the might of Rome addest the cunning of Tyre! | |
| But this ruled by her power the earth which her valor had conquered— | |
| That instructed the world which by her prudence she won. | |
| Say, what doth history tell of thee? She tells, thou didst ever | 5 |
| Win like the Roman by steel, rule like the Tyrian by gold. | | | | |
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