| James and Mary Ford, eds. Every Day in the Year. 1902. | | | | July 12 | | Caesar | | By Francis Saltus Saltus (1849–1889) |
| | (Born in Rome, July 12, 100 B.C.)
THY marvelous genius, perfect as the sun, | |
| Gave light and vigor to the Roman gloom; | |
| Europe to hold thy legions had not room; | |
| Thy boundless mind craved worlds to overrun. | |
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| The will that shrank not at the Rubicon, | 5 |
| Could in grave council virtues new assume, | |
| And while thy glory on the earth did bloom, | |
| Proud nations hailed the grand deeds that hadst done. | |
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| Thy clarion name will to all men recall | |
| The lofty soul, the valor undismayed! | 10 |
| We see thee battling ’mid the groves of Gaul, | |
| And when in robes Imperial arrayed, | |
| Near Pompey’s threatening marble thou didst fall, | |
| Supremely scorning thy assassins’ blade! | | | | |
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