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Chapter 12
The Roman way was ambitious and hard,
2oA road that they built one brick at a time,
3Till it led to the ends of their pearth.
4And they earned their domain with a world of work,
5qA world of walls, and forced marches, and fear,
6Which they battled and conquered in countless wars,
7rFor the senate and people of Rome.
8And when their colossus had weathered an age,
9It turned wiser eyes toward the seast,
10And traised up the word of one umurdered pariah,
11Till it spoke to the millions they’d bound in dread,
12And freed them to build a new way of their own.
13Now you are free to shake your head,
14At the crumbling ruins of an empire long gone,v
15And recite the wold lessons of power’s decline,
16Seeing no more than rot in this ancient retreat,
17From brutal command to an infant faith,
18In the xcarpenter who breached their walls,
19And built a way in for the aVandals and Goths.
20Of course, you know more about history than Rome,
21And you’re wise to their legion of sins,
22Which is why you’re so ready to give up the fight,
23Now that you’ve been on top for a while.
24But where is the bfaith that cost you your might,
25And the cempire you’ll sire when you fire the guard at the gates?
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