Above and beyond the call of duty <br /> <br />Do Roman ghosts still guard the wall? <br /> Far from their homelands in the sun. <br />I wonder if they thought at all. <br />They would remain their duty done. <br /> <br />As corpses in cold northern clay <br /> or dreamt that they would return home. <br /> In triumph on some distant day <br /> to a well earned heroes welcome. <br /> <br />Sometimes when the blue twilight fall <br />I sit enrapt in reverie <br /> and fancy that I hear their calls. <br />Although there’s nothing I can see. <br /> <br />Though one or two claim they can see <br /> the roman sentries on patrol. <br />Along the wall quite frequently. <br />A sad parade of earth bound souls. <br /> <br />Who died too quick to understand <br /> that they were dead their spirits free. <br /> So they obey the last command <br /> still do their duty faithfully. <br /> <br />Do Roman ghost still guard the walls? <br />I cannot answer honestly <br /> I only know when twilight falls. <br />I think they might quite possibly <br /> <br />.15-Jul-08 <br />http: // blog.my space.com/poeticpiers<br /><br />ivor or ivor.e hogg<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/above-and-beyond-the-call-of-duty-for-jt-ellison/
