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I'll recite another poem
also on a Greek theme.

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This is about the invasion
of Alexander into Asia Minor.

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Alexander had a monument put up
after the Battle of Granicus,

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which I kind of quote.

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For those of you who don't know,
I kind of quote in the poem.

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How We Heard the Name.

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The river brought down
dead horses, dead men,

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and military debris indicative
of war or official acts

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upstream.

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But it all went by.

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It all goes by.

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That is the thing
about the river.

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Then a soldier on a log went by.

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He seemed drunk.

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And we asked him why had he
and this junk come down to us

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so from the past upstream.

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Friends, he said, the
great Battle of Granicus

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has just been won by
all of the Greeks,

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except the Lacedaemonians
and myself.

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This is a joke
between me and a man

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named Alexander, whom all of you
ba-bas will hear of as a God.

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