Written on a Marble
Anna Laetitia Barbauld
The world's something bigger,
But just of this figure
And speckled with mountains and seas
Your heroes are overgrown schoolboys
Who scuffle for empires and toys,
And kick the poor ball as they please.
Now Caesar, now Pompey gives law;
And Pharsalia's plain,
Though heaped with the slain,
Was only a game at taw.