ABSTRACT
I think that children should have the last word. Eight-year-old Helen and Emily decided write a poem, after listening to the teacher’s reading Julius Caesar landing in Britain.
And now the standard bearer of the tenth legion cried, ‘Leap down men, unless you want to abandon the eagle. I at all events shall have done my duty to my country and my general’. Uttering these words, in a loud voice, he threw himself overboard … Eventually the Britons were put to flight.
Caesar’s Gallic Wars, Book 4, chapter 25 (https://s3-euw1-ap-pe-df-pch-content-public-p.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/9781315767796/95058caf-ac56-4928-be6a-a185cd7286bc/content/www.classics.mit.edu.Caesar/gallic.4.4" xmlns:xlink="https://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">www.classics.mit.edu.Caesar/gallic.4.4) Helen's and Emily's poem based on the text from Caesar's Gallic Wars. https://s3-euw1-ap-pe-df-pch-content-public-p.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/9781315767796/95058caf-ac56-4928-be6a-a185cd7286bc/content/pg172_1_B.tif" xmlns:xlink="https://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"/>