Caesar crossed the Rubicon

Hannibal marched through the Alps

Napoleon trudged on to Moscow

What cities bare their names

You who succeeded despots and tyrants

Against all the odds you prevailed

You rode into Babylon

As king of kings you were hailed

Laurels, diadems, crowns and jewels

Ambition harkens to the pursuit not the prize

You charged through the gap

You constructed at Tyre

Now I surpass you with the intangible

Not in water or earth but with time

In those legends you must've seen your fate

You continued on a conqueror known as the great