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BALAUSTION'S ADVENTURE.
I was at Rhodes—the isle, not Rhodes the town,Mine was Kameiros—when the news arrived:Our people rose in tumult, cried "No moreDuty to Athens, let us join the League,And side with Sparta, share the spoil,—at worst,Abjure a headship that will ruin Greece!"And so, they sent to Knidos for a fleetTo come and help revolters. Ere help came,—Girl as I was, and never out of RhodesThe whole of my first fourteen years of life, 20But nourished with Ilissian mother's-milk,—I passionately cried to who would hearAnd those who loved me at Kameiros—"No!Never throw Athens off for Sparta's sake—Never disloyal to the life and lightOf the whole world worth calling world at all!Rather go die at Athens, lie outstretchedFor feet to trample on, before the gate
