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From Rome's palaces and villas	A
Gaily issued forth a throng	B
From her humbler habitations	A
Moved a human tide along	B
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Haughty dames and blooming maidens	A
Men who knew not mercy's sway	C
Thronged into the Coliseum	D
On that Roman holiday	C
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From the lonely wilds of Asia	E
From her jungles far away	C
From the distant torrid regions	A
Rome had gathered beasts of prey	C
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Lions restless roaring rampant	F
Tigers with their stealthy tread	G
Leopards bright and fierce and fiery	H
Met in conflict wild and dread	G
	-
Fierce and fearful was the carnage	I
Of the maddened beasts of prey	C
As they fought and rent each other	J
Urged by men more fierce than they	C
	-
Till like muffled thunders breaking	K
On a vast and distant shore	L
Fainter grew the yells of tigers	A
And the lions' dreadful roar	L
	-
On the crimson stained arena	E
Lay the victims of the fight	M
Eyes which once had glared with anguish	N
Lost in death their baleful light	M
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Then uprose the gladiators	A
Armed for conflict unto death	O
Waiting for the prefect's signal	P
Cold and stern with bated breath	O
	-
Ave Caesar morituri	L
Te salutant rose the cry	L
From the lips of men ill fated	Q
Doomed to suffer and to die	L
	-
Then began the dreadful contest	R
Lives like chaff were thrown away	C
Rome with all her pride and power	L
Butchered for a holiday	C
	-
Eagerly the crowd were waiting	K
Loud the clashing sabres rang	S
When between the gladiators	A
All unarmed a hermit sprang	S
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Cease your bloodshed cried the hermit	T
On this carnage place your ban	U
But with flashing swords they answered	V
Back unto your place old man	U
	-
From their path the gladiators	A
Thrust the strange intruder back	W
Who between their hosts advancing	K
Calmly parried their attack	W
	-
All undaunted by their weapons	A
Stood the old heroic man	U
While a maddened cry of anger	L
Through the vast assembly ran	U
	-
Down with him cried out the people	P
As with thumbs unbent they glared	X
Till the prefect gave the signal	P
That his life should not be spared	X
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Men grew wild with wrathful passion	Y
When his fearless words were said	G
Cruelly they fiercely showered	V
Stones on his devoted head	G
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Bruised and bleeding fell the hermit	T
Victor in that hour of strife	Z
Gaining in his death a triumph	A2
That he could not win in life	Z
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Had he uttered on the forum	D
Struggling thoughts within him born	B2
Men had jeered his words as madness	A
But his deed they could not scorn	B2
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Not in vain had been his courage	C2
Nor for naught his daring deed	D2
From his grave his mangled body	H
Did for wretched captives plead	D2
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From that hour Rome grown more thoughtful	P
Ceased her sport in human gore	L
And into her Coliseum	D
Gladiators came no more	L

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

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