A sweating man stepped out of the sauna, wrapping himself in a towel.

In one sense the protagonist is the poet himself, but in another sense he is an anonymity.

In the 17th century Hugo Grotius developed the doctrine of the freedom of the seas, in the face of Portuguese and Spanish claims to sovereignty over vast areas of ocean.

But time will teach the Russ, ev'n conquering War Has handmaid arts: aye, aye, the Russ will woo All sciences that speed Bellona's car, All murder's tactic arts, and win them too […]