The world's something bigger, <br />But just of this figure <br />And speckled with mountains and seas; <br />Your heroes are overgrown schoolboys <br />Who scuffle for empires and toys, <br />And kick the poor ball as they please. <br />Now Cæsar, now Pompey, gives law; <br />And Pharsalia's plain, <br />Though heaped with the slain, <br />Was only a game at taw.<br /><br />Anna Laetitia Barbauld<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/written-on-a-marble/
