No bitterness: our ancestors did it. <br />They were only ignorant and hopeful, they wanted freedom but wealth too. <br />Their children will learn to hope for a Caesar. <br />Or rather--for we are not aquiline Romans but soft mixed colonists-- <br />Some kindly Sicilian tyrant who'll keep <br />Poverty and Carthage off until the Romans arrive, <br />We are easy to manage, a gregarious people, <br />Full of sentiment, clever at mechanics, and we love our luxuries.<br /><br />Robinson Jeffers<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/ave-caesar/
