Text: Edgar Allan Poe, “[Song of Triumph],” The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe (in “Four Beasts in One”), 1850, 2:469-470


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[[Latin Hymn]]

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!


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Notes:

This version shows the poem as it was published, as part of the tale “Four Beasts in One (Epimanes)” in the posthumous collection of Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe edited by R. W. Griswold and first issued in 1850.

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