<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=353778" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Ashurnatsirpal III</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Three walls around the town of Tela when I came.<br>They expected everything of those walls;<br>Nobody in the town came out to kiss my feet.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I knocked the walls down, killed three thousand soldiers,<br>Took away cattle and sheep, took all the loot in sight,<br>And burned special captives.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Some of the soldiers—I cut off hands and feet.<br>Others—I cut off ears and fingers.<br>Some—I put out the eyes.<br>I made a pyramid of heads.<br>I strung heads on trees circling the town.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When I got through with it<br>There wasn’t much left of the town of Tela.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Carl+Sandburg">Carl Sandburg</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=353778" data-title="Ashurnatsirpal III de Carl Sandburg" data-description="Three walls around the town of Tela when I came. They expected everything of those walls; Nobody in the town came out to kiss my feet. I knocked the walls down, killed three thousand soldiers, Took away cattle and sheep, took all the loot in sigh..."></div> </div> </div>

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