Edgar Allan Poe – Latin Hymn

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“A thousand, a thousand, a thousand!
A thousand, a thousand, a thousand!
We with one warrior have slain.…”
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“Latin Hymn” is a poem written by Edgar Allan Poe. It was first published in March 1836 by Southern Literary Messenger as part of “Epimanes”.

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Latin Hymn
by
Edgar Allan Poe

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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!