If haply there are fields, as some pretend,
Beyond the silent Styx, where vaguely grim
Souls of dead heroes, shadowy and dim,
Awake,—I may find entrance at life’s end,
Not as a hero who freed Rome from him,
But as a man who once was Cæsar’s friend!
If haply there are fields, as some pretend,
Beyond the silent Styx, where vaguely grim
Souls of dead heroes, shadowy and dim,
Awake,—I may find entrance at life’s end,
Not as a hero who freed Rome from him,
But as a man who once was Cæsar’s friend!