<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=358681" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Antony's Ending</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">But when he heard the women wailing,<br>lamenting his sorry state<br>madam with her oriental gestures<br>and her slaves with their barbarized Greek<br>the pride in his soul rose up,<br>his Italian blood sickened with disgust<br>and all he'd worshipped blindly till then<br>his wild Alexandrian life<br>now seemed dull and alien.<br>And he told them 'to stop wailing for him,<br>that kind of thing was all wrong.<br>They ought to be singing his praises<br>for having been a great ruler,<br>a rich, heroic man.<br>And if he'd fallen now, he hadn't fallen humbly,<br>but as a Roman vanquished by a Roman.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Constantine+P.+Cavafy">Constantine P. Cavafy</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=358681" data-title="Antony's Ending de Constantine P. Cavafy" data-description="But when he heard the women wailing, lamenting his sorry state madam with her oriental gestures and her slaves with their barbarized Greek the pride in his soul rose up, his Italian blood sickened with disgust and all he'd worshipped blindly till ..."></div> </div> </div>

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