Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Asia: Vols. XXI–XXIII. 1876–79. | | | | Syria: Acre (Ptolemais) | | Ptolemais | | Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864) |
| | | NO city on the many peopled earth | |
| Hath been the witness of such valiant deeds | |
| As thou hast, Ptolemais! and by whom | |
| Were they achieved? by Britons, one and all. | |
| The first our lion-hearted king may claim; | 5 |
| And who the second? he who drove across | |
| The torrid desert the (till then uncheckt) | |
| Invader, from those realms the Ptolemies | |
| Ruled, and the Cæsars followed in their train,— | |
| Sidney, the last of chivalry. One more | 10 |
| Rode o’er the sea to win the crown that hung | |
| Inviting on thy walls: he also bore | |
| A name illustrious even as Sidney’s own,— | |
Napier was he.
’T is something to have held | |
| His hand in mine, ’t is somewhat to record | 15 |
| One of his actions in the crowded page. | | | | |
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