Paul Cezanne Table Corner painting
William Bouguereau Innocence painting
God Augustus walks in Heaven,
Ghost Marcellus swims in Styx, Julia's dead and gone to join him-
That's the end of Julia's tricks.
But our Eagles still are straying
And by shame and sorrow stirred To the tomb of God Augustus
We'll bring back each wandering bird.
There was another which began;
German Hermann lost his sweetheart And his little pot of beer but I can't remember the finish, and the verse is not important except as reminding me to tell of Hermann's "sweetheart". She was the daughter of a chieftain called, in German, Siegstoss or something of the sort; but his Roman name was
Bill Brauer The Gold Dress painting
Segestes. He had been to Rome, like Hermann, and enrolled among the Knights, but unlike Hermann had felt morally bound by the oath of friendship he had sworn to Augustus. It was this Segestes who had warned Varus about Hermann and Segimerus and suggested that Varus should arrest them at the banquet to which he had invited them just before his unfortunate expedition started. Segestes had a favourite daughter whom Hermann had carried off and married and Segestes never forgave him for this injury. He could not, however
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