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And the Ship Sails

The Government stands - A word from the poet

Waiting for the Barbarians

of Constantinos Cavafy

What are we waiting so gathered in the square?
the barbarians are coming today.
Why such chaos in the Senate?
Why do the Senators sit without legislating?
is that the barbarians are coming today. What laws would vote
Senators?
When the barbarians will make the law.
Why did our emperor, got up so early,
sits on a dais outside the city, and the solemn
crown?
is that the barbarians are coming today.
The Emperor is preparing to receive their leader.
He even had prepared a scroll that allows
Appeals and honorary titles.
Why have our two consuls and magistrates our flaunt their red robes embroidered?
Why are adorned with amethyst bracelets and rings sparkling with diamonds?
Why bring their sticks and finely chiseled valuable?
is that the barbarians are coming today and these objects dazzle the barbarians.
Because our rhetorical skills not plead with their usual eloquence?
is that the barbarians are coming today. They do not appreciate the beautiful sentences or long speeches.
And why, suddenly, this uneasiness, and this upheaval? How
have become serious faces!
Why the streets and squares emptying so fast
and all return home with a look so sad?
is that the night has fallen and the barbarians do not come.
And the people came from the border saying that there are not barbarians ...
And now what will become of us without barbarians?
They had a solution.