text:  Even at that same period she advanced into Persia more than a thousand miles from her own metropolis in Europe under the blazing ensigns of the cross kicked the crown of Persia to and fro like a tennis-ball upset the throne of Artaxerxes countersigned haughtily the elevation of a new _Basileus_ more friendly to herself and then recrossed the Tigris homewards after having torn forcibly out of the heart and palpitating entrails of Persia whatever trophies that idolatrous empire had formerly wrested from herself