Classic Poem

The name of Saturninus you refused,
And in vain pride Antonius only used,
When 'neath the northern Bear you roused such strife,
As he who warred with his Egyptian wife.
Hadst thou forgotten, wretch, thy namesake's fate
Crushed by God's vengeance in the Actian strait,
Or did Rhine promise what the Nile ne'er gave?
Didst think more might was in the Arctic wave?
Antony beneath our swords his lot did rue;
And he a Caesar was compared to you.