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disgrace, but most deeply of all for the Eagles, for with each Eagle had vanished a whole regiment of Rome's bravest men. The ballad laments in a number of verses the unhappy fate of the Nineteenth, Twenty-Fifth and Twenty-Sixth Regiments which, when I was nineteen years old, were ambushed and massacred by the Germans in a remote marshy forest; and tells how, after the news of this unparalleled disaster reached him. Lord Augustus kept knocking his head against the wall:
Lord Augustus each time bawling
As he fetched his head a crack, "Varus, Varus, General Varus,
Give me my three Eagles back!"
Lord Augustus tore his bedclothes,
Blankets, sheet and counterpane. "Varus, Varus, General Varus,
Give my Regiments back again!"
The next verses say that he never afterwards formed new regiments under the numbers of the three destroyed
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