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[[Latin Hymn]]
Mille, mille, mille,
Mille, mille, mille,
Decollavimus, unus homo!
Mille, mille, mille, mille, decollavimus!
Mille, mille, mille,
Vivat qui mille mille occidit!
Tantum vini habet nemo
Quantum sanguinis effudit!
Which may be thus paraphrased:
A thousand, a thousand, a thousand,
A thousand, a thousand, a thousand,
We, with one warrior have slain!
A thousand, a thousand, a thousand, a thousand,
Sing a thousand over again!
Soho! — let us sing
Long life to our King,
Who knocked over a thousand so fine
Soho! — let us roar,
He has given us more
Red gallons of gore
Than all Syria can furnish of wine!
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Notes:
This version shows the poem as it was published as part of the tale “Epimanes” in the Broadway Journal.
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[S:1 - BJ, 1845] - Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore - Works - Poems - Latin Hymn (Text-08)