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Here are a few poems
from ancient times.

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This poem is by Archilochus,
one of the great lyric

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poets of any time.

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Archilochus was a part-time
soldier like most men.

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And he didn't dig it.

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And I imagine he got fed up one
day with the Marine mentality.

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And the Greeks had
it too, that little

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epitaph with the last
Macedonian, supreme example.

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And he says in one of
the-- probably two or three

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poems I think that
come down to us whole.

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And we know him mostly by
fragments, sometimes a word

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or two, a phrase.

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This poem is complete.

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"Some Saian mountaineer is
strutting today with my shield.

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I threw it down
behind a bush and ran

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when the fighting got hot.

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Life seemed somehow
more precious.

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It was a beautiful shield.

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But I know where I can
get one exactly like it,

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just as round."

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