<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=570790" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Roman Sentry</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">A soldier's curse is not the copper pay, <br>stationed here in this gods-forsaken place! <br>I'd bribe a centurion to leave today.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Anywhere! —lug my shield on the Appian Way<br>or guard the quarry slaves in rocky Thrace.<br>A soldier's curse is not the copper pay.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The land is weary, fit for thorns and clay.<br>The towns are crowded with a bearded race.<br>I'd bribe a centurion to leave today.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">This hill is bald as a skull, cold and gray, <br>—and I left my woolen tunic back at base! <br>A soldier's curse is not the copper pay.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sentry for rebels crucified today—<br>last year in Rome I won a chariot-race! <br>I'd bribe a centurion to leave today.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">This one I know: I heard the governor say <br>'Ecce homo! ' (I don't forget a face.) <br>A soldier's curse is not the copper pay.<br>I'd bribe a centurion to leave today.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=William+F+Dougherty">William F Dougherty</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=570790" data-title="Roman Sentry de William F Dougherty" data-description="A soldier's curse is not the copper pay, stationed here in this gods-forsaken place! I'd bribe a centurion to leave today. Anywhere! —lug my shield on the Appian Way or guard the quarry slaves in rocky Thrace. A soldier's curse is not the cop..."></div> </div> </div>

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