{"id":7710,"date":"2007-10-11T22:11:49","date_gmt":"2007-10-12T02:11:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/archive\/?p=7710"},"modified":"2010-08-18T08:20:01","modified_gmt":"2010-08-18T12:20:01","slug":"hes-dug-a-trench-a-song-for-prefessor-fitts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/latin-poetry-podcast\/2007\/10\/11\/hes-dug-a-trench-a-song-for-prefessor-fitts\/","title":{"rendered":"He’s Dug a Trench: a song for Professor Fitts"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is a song for the retiring professor Fitts in Classical Studies and Archaeology, a hymn to his achievements and stature. It includes a brief mention of his resemblance to the Roman emperor Vespasian (see the photo below). The melody is from an old English folksong, “I Drew My Ship into the Harbor.”<\/p>\n[audio:http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/archive\/images\/hes-dug-a-trench.mp3]\n

He’s dug a trench in old Mycenae\"Fitts<\/p>\n

He’s dug a trench in Scottish glens<\/p>\n

He’s dug a trench, and then fell in it<\/p>\n

Naught but a crane will lift him out again.<\/p>\n

O knees, o knees, why do you fail me?<\/p>\n

Come help me ‘scape this blasted ditch.<\/p>\n

O lift me up, and off to Boston,<\/p>\n

And make another surgeon rich.<\/p>\n

Good emperor Fitts, spit of Vespasian,<\/p>\n

A finer emperor no land knows<\/p>\n

But those of us who’ve seen him naked<\/p>\n

Are glad this emperor has his clothes.<\/p>\n

With Mary now for green Augusta,<\/p>\n

Carlisle’s loss is Georgia’s gain.<\/p>\n

There raise a glass to those that love you,<\/p>\n

Until we all do meet again.<\/p>\n

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This is a song for the retiring professor Fitts in Classical Studies and Archaeology, a hymn to his achievements and stature. It includes a brief mention of his resemblance to the Roman emperor Vespasian (see the photo below). The melody is from an old English folksong, “I Drew My Ship into the Harbor.” [audio:http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/archive\/images\/hes-dug-a-trench.mp3] He’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[725],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latin-poetry-podcast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/latin-poetry-podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/latin-poetry-podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/latin-poetry-podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/latin-poetry-podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/latin-poetry-podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/latin-poetry-podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/latin-poetry-podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/latin-poetry-podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/latin-poetry-podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}