The Eagle of the Ninth by Rosemary Sutcliff

Author:Rosemary Sutcliff [Sutcliff, Rosemary]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Tags: Action & Adventure, Ancient Civilizations, Boys & Men, Childrens, Europe, Fiction, Historical, Young Adult
ISBN: 9780312644291
Google: kYHqwAEACAAJ
Amazon: 0312564341
Publisher: Square Fish
Published: 2010-11-09T00:00:00+00:00

‘Oh when I joined the Eagles,

(As it might be yesterday)

I kissed a girl at Clusium

Before I marched away.’

The familiar words joined themselves to the tune in Marcus’s head, as he rose silently, and stood getting his stiffened leg into marching order. The whistling was drawing nearer, becoming every moment more clearly recognizable:

‘A long march, a long march, and twenty years in store, When I left my girl at Clusium, beside the threshing-floor.’

There were many more verses, all describing girls that the maker of the song had kissed in different parts of the Empire; but as Marcus went purposefully to the doorway, and Esca stooped to drag aside the thorn branches, the whistling ceased, and a voice—a husky voice with a queer, brooding quality in it, as though the singer’s thoughts were turned inward and backward—took up the song at the last verse of all:

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