Moral Pieces, in Prose and Verse/Improvement of Scipio's Boast

by Lydia Sigourney

IMPROVEMENT OF SCIPIO'S BOAST.

"I HAVE no soldier that would count his life
    "Too dear should I require it at his hand;
"He the rough surge would brave—the battle's strife,
    "Or from the high rock leap at my command."

This was the boast of Scipio—Christian—hear!
    Thou hast a chieftain of more equal laws,
Count not thine ease, or thine existence dear,
    If thou may'st win at last His great applause.

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