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The last warm gleams of sunset fade	A
From cypress spire and stonepine dome	B
And in the twilight's deepening shade	A
Lingering I scan the wrecks of Rome	B
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Husht the Madonna's Evening Bell	C
The steers lie loosed from wain and plough	D
The vagrant monk is in his cell	C
The meek nun novice cloistered now	D
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Pedant's presumptuous voice no more	E
Vexes the spot where Caesar trod	F
And o'er the pavement's soundless floor	E
Come banished priest and exiled God	F
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The lank ribbed she wolf couched among	G
The regal hillside's tangled scrubs	H
With doting gaze and fondling tongue	G
Suckles the Vestal's twin born cubs	H
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Yet once again Evander leads	H
neas to his wattled home	B
And throned on Tiber's fresh cut reeds	H
Talks of burnt Troy and rising Rome	B
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From out the tawny dusk one hears	H
The half feigned scream of Sabine maids	H
The rush to arms then swift the tears	H
That separate the clashing blades	H
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The Lictors with their fasces throng	I
To quell the Commons' rising roar	E
As Tullia's chariot flames along	I
Splashed with her murdered father's gore	E
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Her tresses free from band or comb	B
Love dimpled Venus lithe and tall	J
And fresh as Fiumicino's foam	B
Mounts her pentelic pedestal	K
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With languid lids and lips apart	L
And curving limbs like wave half furled	L
Unarmed she dominates the heart	L
And without sceptre sways the world	L
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Nerved by her smile avenging Mars	H
Stalks through the Forum's fallen fanes	H
Or changed of mien and healed of scars	H
Threads sylvan slopes and vineyard plains	H
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With waves of song from wakening lyre	M
Apollo routs the wavering night	L
While parsley crowned the white robed choir	N
Wind chanting up the Sacred Height	L
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Where Jove with thunder garlands wreathed	L
And crisp locks frayed like fretted foam	B
Sits with his lightnings half unsheathed	L
And frowns against the foes of Rome	B
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You cannot kill the Gods They still	O
Reclaim the thrones where once they reigned	L
Rehaunt the grove remount the rill	O
And renovate their rites profaned	L
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Diana's hounds still lead the chase	H
Still Neptune's Trident crests the sea	H
And still man's spirit soars through space	H
On feathered heels of Mercury	H
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No flood can quench the Vestals' Fire	N
The Flamen's robes are still as white	L
As ere the Salii's armoured choir	N
Were drowned by droning anchorite	L
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The saint may seize the siren's seat	L
The shaveling frown where frisked the Faun	D
Ne'er will though all beside should fleet	L
The Olympian Presence be withdrawn	D
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Here even in the noontide glare	P
The Gods recumbent take their ease	H
Go look and you will find them there	P
Slumbering behind some fallen frieze	H
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But most when sunset glow hath paled	L
And come as now the twilight hour	N
In vesper vagueness dimly veiled	L
I feel their presence and their power	N
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What though their temples strew the ground	L
And to the ruin owls repair	P
Their home their haunt is all around	L
They drive the cloud they ride the air	P
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And when the planets wend their way	Q
Along the never ageing skies	H
Revere the Gods'' I hear them say	Q
The Gods are old the Gods are wise ''	-
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Build as man may Time gnaws and peers	H
Through marble fissures granite rents	H
Only Imagination rears	H
Imperishable monuments	H
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Let Gaul and Goth pollute the shrine	D
Level the altar fire the fane	D
There is no razing the Divine	D
The Gods return the Gods remain	D

Alfred Austin

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