Poems (Robert Underwood Johnson)/"Why," you ask, "has not the Servian Perished?"

"WHY," YOU ASK, "HAS NOT THE SERVIAN PERISHED?" FRAGMENT FROM THE "GIULICHE" ("JEWELS")

"Why," you ask, "has not the Servian perished,
 Such calamities about him throng?"
With the sword alike the lyre he cherished:
 He is saved by Song!