When Caesar crossed the Rubicon,
Fear and terror followed anon…
Would Caesar be like Sulla?
No, he forgave debts so men were like new,
He released the exiles, too,
But then he fought with Pompey!
Pompey was killed and his soldiers fled.
Poor things, they had been sure of victory ‘cause Pompey led…
Caesar took the spoils and hurried back to Rome
Where he was made Dictator and put upon a throne.
But when Caesar was offered a kingly crown,
Cassius did nothing but frown.
“He’ll be a tyrant”, Cassius said.
“Let’s make a conspiracy instead!”
On the Ides of March, Caesar was killed;
In the Forum, Mark Antony read what he had willed.
His body was burned and the people stayed by it all through the night.
But then, oh, Cassius, Brutus, and Antony did fight!
Antony won and he marched through Rome’s gate.
And so ends the ballad of Caesar the Great.
Nadia Cerdas is a fifth grader from Georgia.