Chapter 13 CUI BONO

Did caution keep the gates of Greece,

Ye saints of "safety first!"

Twixt Thessaly and Locris when

Leonidas' thousand men

Died scornful of the proffered peace

Of Xerxes the accurst?

Watch ye have kept, ward ye have kept,

But watch and ward were vain

If love and gratitude have slept

While ye stood guard for gain.

Or ye,