Poem: ‘Imperial’
Nick Laird, 20 March 2003
And should I not pity Nineveh, that great city, in which there are more than a hundred and twenty thousand persons who do not know their right hand from their left, and also much cattle?
Jonah 4.11
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In A Popular Account of Discoveries at Nineveh (1854) Austin Henry Layard, the popular archaeologist and author, is again among the ruins by the dying of October,
scattering some Arabs from a...
