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A Worker Reads History
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Who built the seven gates of Thebes?
6 V0 C9 g$ U6 W; ZThe books are filled with names of kings.( H: Y( i g# g: @0 Q
Was it the kings who hauled the craggy blocks of stone?8 } \# E3 q! U u) W1 e
And Babylon, so many times destroyed.
& A+ |/ d) p7 ^5 y& G8 \Who built the city up each time? In which of Lima's houses,
( z3 x7 `: f- s' c" d# @That city glittering with gold, lived those who built it?6 U# }2 r1 \% ]6 V
In the evening when the Chinese wall was finished8 @$ t4 U2 o2 q' P. ` D7 O
Where did the masons go? Imperial Rome
8 o7 A) g( Z( d% a) B. L HIs full of arcs of triumph. Who reared them up? Over whom- J! W s# [, V3 f6 C# }# i0 Q
Did the Caesars triumph? Byzantium lives in song.% P) j( B" ~7 S: h9 l- }! U6 G
Were all her dwellings palaces? And even in Atlantis of the legend- Q1 N0 @9 D' i4 i$ n
The night the seas rushed in,
2 P" W& e) t2 f q$ yThe drowning men still bellowed for their slaves.
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Young Alexander conquered India.
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Was there not even a cook in his army?
8 J6 @8 ^9 J/ m$ ^4 K! rPhillip of Spain wept as his fleet8 P) l; [7 m$ {; R7 N1 Q
was sunk and destroyed. Were there no other tears?' r, W' k7 M0 h; w4 S4 u( m
Frederick the Greek triumphed in the Seven Years War.
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At whose expense the victory ball?
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Who paid the piper?
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" \2 E$ W3 w6 y1 w. R/ u* RSo many particulars.# A9 j, V) D H3 x4 w& V! m0 A, N
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此诗为耶鲁大学John Merriman历史202(现代欧洲史)第一堂大课所提,引人深思。历史到底是个啥?
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