“The Persians, when
They had vanquished the Ionians in the seafight,
Harried Miletus both by land and water.”
By land and water—was that well,
Herodotus?
By two of the four elements, two only?
Simple Athenian, this is halfway war.
We, shrewder now, we knife-eyed men of science,
Add air and fire, and so involve the total.
If ever we lay hands on the white planet
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