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Cleopatra
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The Peacock & The Eagle: Cleopatra's Entry Into Tarsus by Stewart Stafford
Cleopatra arrives, regal and mighty,
From ocean spray as Aphrodite,
Wealthy and waif, yearning for her,
Dared all to defy her possessive aura.
Mark Antony, struck by her sultry gaze,
Lepidus, prisoner in a bureaucrat's maze,
Sees power slipping from a friend’s hand,
Ensnared by a siren from a scorched land.
Lepidus was Caesar's trusted right hand;
A granule falling through hourglass sand,
Antony, headstrong military pr
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