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[after the first two lines of Stephen's poem, "Muse"]

"That strain again.  It had a dying fall."

---William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, Act I:scene 1

Crossing muddy Rubicon, in sight of Gaul,
haughty Caesar casts his dice--- for "the whole ball
"of wax, or string."  The Senate will not annul,
its own power to his, and its leaders will call
Caesar's bluff---his stab at dictatorship will stall
at the long knives of those assassins in that hall:
Brutus' firm swing to Caesar's dying fall.

Starward