For the Republic I, you for your crown,
Each one of his own cause the very type.
Though both of us have failed, your cause yet rules,
Your Empire.
Any fool can govern fools.
To make fools rule themselves and do it well,
That is the task. If you could rule forever,
Caesar ... but little men will seize your work,
Your great machine. There’s where the paths dissever!
And Rome roars blindly down amid the murk