From Berlin to Bagdad and Babylon

by J. A. Zahm

’Tis a grand sight from off “The Giant’s grave”

To watch the progress of those rolling seas

Between the Bosphorus, as they lash and lave

Europe and Asia, you being quite at ease;

There’s not a sea .....

Turns up more dangerous breakers than the Euxine.[34]

Inter utrumque fremunt immani turbine venti.

Nescit cui domino pareat, unda maria.

Nam modo purpureo vires capit Eurus ab ortu;

Nunc Zephyrus, sero vespere missus, adest;