(20) "Though under Earth and
throneless now I be, /Yet, while I lived, all Earth was under me" (140).
See the
throneless conqueror seated, Ruler by a people's choice; See the patriot's task completed; Hear the Father's dying voice: "By the name that you inherit, By the sufferings you recall, Cherish the fraternal spirit; Love your country first of all!
When the
throneless twentieth-century princess Nnu Ego arrives in the city of Lagos to meet her second husband, Nnaife, "in walked a man with a belly like a pregnant cow":