Powerful poem.

I studied it in school as did my children at their school, decades later.

They also studied the Caesar' savage Gallic Wars ( in English and in Latin ) and Thucydides History of the Peloponsesian War.

Thucydides is essential reading these days.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/opinion/america-china-tru...

There is a reason they put that into curriculum.