Living
They Tell Us, the Persuasive Greek
From Works and Life, ed. Forster, vol. VIII (1876)
Living
They tell us, the persuasive Greek,
When from the bema he would speak,
To make more clear some weighty truth
Poll'd a round pebble in his mouth.
Napoleon, try this help again,
Or any other, to speak plain,
For now, your words so strangely jar,
War sounds like peace and peace like war.
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Landor, Walter Savage. “They Tell Us, the Persuasive Greek.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/893/.
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Landor, Walter Savage. “They Tell Us, the Persuasive Greek.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/893/.
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