Oh thou degenerate child of the great and glorious mother, <br /> Who with the Romans' strong might couplest the Tyrians' deceit! <br />But those ever governed with vigor the earth they had conquered,-- <br /> These instructed the world that they with cunning had won. <br />Say! what renown does history grant thee? Thou, Roman-like, gained'st <br /> That with the steel, which with gold, Tyrian-like, then thou didst rule!<br /><br />Friedrich Schiller<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/carthage/
