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THE CHARIOTEER'S GRAVE by THOMAS WALSH

First Line: IN TARRAGONA WHERE THE WAVES
Last Line: "WOULD I HAD DIED WITHIN THE CIRCUS CHEER."
Subject(s): CHARIOT RACING; DEATH; GRAVES; DEAD, THE; TOMBS; TOMBSTONES;
IN Tarragona where the waves
Break on a harbour of imperial graves
Within the archaic Palace stands
A figure carved, the palm-branch in its hands,
And this inscription scrolled around:
"VICTIM OF FEVER; I AM IN THE GROUND;
QUINTUS THE VICTOR CHARIOTEER;
WOULD I HAD DIED WITHIN THE CIRCUS CHEER."



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