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Läsebok. N:o 93—94.
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In the vast forest here,
Clad in my warlike gear,
Fell I upon my spear,
0, death was grateful!
»Thus seamed with many scars,
Bursting these prison bars,
Up to its native stars,
My soul ascended;
There from the flowing bowl
Deep drinks the warrior’s soul,
Skoal! to the Northland! Skoal!»
— Thus the tale ended.
J[. W. Longfellow.
94. Antony’s Speech over the Dead Body of
Julius Cæsar.
Friends, Komans, countrymen, lend me your ears:
1 come to bury Cæsar, not to praise him.
The evil that men do lives after them,
The good is oft interred with their bones;
So let it be with Cæsar. The noble Brutus
Hath told you, Cæsar was ambitious:
If it were so, it was a grievous fault,
And grievously hath Cæsar answer’d it.
Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest
(For Brutus is an honourable man,
So are they all, all honourable men)
Come I to speak in Caesar’s funeral.
He was my friend, faithful and just to me:
But Brutus says, he was ambitious;
And Brutus is an honourable man.
He hath brought many captives home to Rome,
Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill:
Did this in Cæsar seem ambitious?
When that the poor have cried, Cæsar hath wept;
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff:
Yet Brutus says he was ambitious;
And Brutus is an honourable man.
You all did see that on the Lupercal.
I thrice presented him a kingly crown,
Which he did thrice refuse. Was this ambition?
Yet Brutus says he was ambitious;
And sure, he is an honourable man:
I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke,
But here I am to speak what I do know.
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