"Then, ’twas before my time, the Roman At yonder heaving hill would stare. The blood that warms an English yeoman, The thoughts that hurt him, they were there.There, like the wind through woods in riot, Through him the gale of life blew high; The tree of man was never quiet: Then ’twas the Roman, now ’tis I.The gale, it plies the saplings double, It blows so hard, ’twill soon be gone: To-day the Roman and his trouble Are ashes under Uricon."
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A. E. Housman, ' (1896), XXXI, sts. 3–6
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Roman Britain
was the territory that became the Roman province of Britannia after the , consisting of a large part of the island of Great Britain. The occupation lasted from AD 43 to AD 410.
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