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The Last Light Burns: A Post-Sack TL



There are some who say

Rome is gone.

And they are right.

The Rome of Caesar,

Octavian, Scipio, Hadrian and Aurelian.

It is gone.


But what of the Romans?

The people of that nation,

Who remember the time

When the eagle flew above continents

And so strive to follow?


They are not gone.

Time beats them down,

But they are mountains.

Rock solid and lasting.

They were here before you.

And they will be here

Long after you are gone.


You just have to look

To where the last light burns

To find where they are.

But don’t forget them,

Or they will destroy you.

Like Syracuse, Macedon, Gallia, Carthage,

And all the others

Who once stood in their way.​
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