It was four hundred eighty BCE, before
The birth of Christ, that Greece had faced
A mass invasion and a Persian war.
The second such incursion, which had placed
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i may have to bone up on ancient history. spartans were greeks? hmmm?
and i don't recognize iambic pentameter 'cause i'm not a poem scholar; but i've HEARD of it.
not until i looked at poem again did i notice the valiant effort to use sound-rhymes and, if not sound-rhymes, sight-rhymes (if that name may be used) .
i know you are OLD (i repeat: OLD) , but YOU weren't in THAT WAR, were you? ?
bri :)
p.s. A-1..........selective service designation?
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i may have to bone up on ancient history. spartans were greeks? hmmm? and i don't recognize iambic pentameter 'cause i'm not a poem scholar; but i've HEARD of it. not until i looked at poem again did i notice the valiant effort to use sound-rhymes and, if not sound-rhymes, sight-rhymes (if that name may be used) . i know you are OLD (i repeat: OLD) , but YOU weren't in THAT WAR, were you? ? bri :) p.s. A-1..........selective service designation?