diff --git a/Source/Examples/Data/Poem.txt b/Source/Examples/Data/Poem.txt new file mode 100644 index 00000000..8f1c5ee8 --- /dev/null +++ b/Source/Examples/Data/Poem.txt @@ -0,0 +1,51 @@ +Waiting for the Barbarians +What are we waiting for, assembled in the forum? + +The barbarians are to arrive today. + +Why such inaction in the Senate? +Why do the Senators sit and pass no laws? + +Because the barbarians are to arrive today. +What laws can the Senators pass any more? +When the barbarians come they will make the laws. + +Why did our emperor wake up so early, +and sits at the greatest gate of the city, +on the throne, solemn, wearing the crown? + +Because the barbarians are to arrive today. +And the emperor waits to receive +their chief. Indeed he has prepared +to give him a scroll. Therein he inscribed +many titles and names of honor. + +Why have our two consuls and the praetors come out +today in their red, embroidered togas; +why do they wear amethyst-studded bracelets, +and rings with brilliant, glittering emeralds; +why are they carrying costly canes today, +wonderfully carved with silver and gold? + +Because the barbarians are to arrive today, +and such things dazzle the barbarians. + +Why don't the worthy orators come as always +to make their speeches, to have their say? + +Because the barbarians are to arrive today; +and they get bored with eloquence and orations. + +Why all of a sudden this unrest +and confusion. (How solemn the faces have become). +Why are the streets and squares clearing quickly, +and all return to their homes, so deep in thought? + +Because night is here but the barbarians have not come. +And some people arrived from the borders, +and said that there are no longer any barbarians. + +And now what shall become of us without any barbarians? +Those people were some kind of solution. + +- Constantine P. Cavafy (1904) \ No newline at end of file