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Over the great windy waters and over the clear crested summits	A
Unto the sun and the sky and unto the perfecter earth	B
Come let us go to a land wherein gods of the old time wandered	C
Where every breath even now changes to ether divine	D
Come let us go though withal a voice whisper 'The world that we live in	E
Whithersoever we turn still is the same narrow crib	F
'Tis but to prove limitation and measure a cord that we travel	G
Let who would 'scape and be free go to his chamber and think	H
'Tis but to change idle fancies for memories wilfully falser	I
'Tis but to go and have been ' Come little bark let us go	J
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I Claude to Eustace	K
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Dear Eustatio I write that you may write me an answer	I
Or at the least to put us again en rapport with each other	I
Rome disappoints me much St Peter's perhaps in especial	G
Only the Arch of Titus and view from the Lateran please me	L
This however perhaps is the weather which truly is horrid	M
Greece must be better surely and yet I am feeling so spiteful	G
That I could travel to Athens to Delphi and Troy and Mount Sinai	N
Though but to see with my eyes that these are vanity also	J
Rome disappoints me much I hardly as yet understand it but	O
Rubbishy seems the word that most exactly would suit it	P
All the foolish destructions and all the sillier savings	Q
All the incongruous things of past incompatible ages	R
Seem to be treasured up here to make fools of present and future	I
Would to Heaven the old Goths had made a cleaner sweep of it	P
Would to Heaven some new ones would come and destroy these churches	R
However one can live in Rome as also in London	S
It is a blessing no doubt to be rid at least for a time of	T
All one's friends and relations yourself forgive me included	M
All the assujettissement of having been what one has been	E
What one thinks one is or thinks that others suppose one	S
Yet in despite of all we turn like fools to the English	U
Vernon has been my fate who is here the same that you knew him	V
Making the tour it seems with friends of the name of Trevellyn	S
The Oxford Edition edited by A L P Norrington	S
includes a line immediately following this	W
Rome is better than London because it is other than London	S
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II Claude to Eustace	K
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Rome disappoints me still but I shrink and adapt myself to it	P
Somehow a tyrannous sense of a superincumbent oppression	S
Still wherever I go accompanies ever and makes me	L
Feel like a tree shall I say buried under a ruin of brickwork	J
Rome believe me my friend is like its own Monte Testaceo	K
Merely a marvellous mass of broken and castaway wine pots	K
Ye gods what do I want with this rubbish of ages departed	M
Things that Nature abhors the experiments that she has failed in	S
What do I find in the Forum An archway and two or three pillars	K
Well but St Peter's Alas Bernini has filled it with sculpture	I
No one can cavil I grant at the size of the great Coliseum	X
Doubtless the notion of grand and capacious and massive amusement	Y
This the old Romans had but tell me is this an idea	Z
Yet of solidity much but of splendour little is extant	Y
'Brickwork I found thee and marble I left thee ' their Emperor vaunted	A2
'Marble I thought thee and brickwork I find thee ' the Tourist may answer	I
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III Georgina Trevellyn to Louisa	Z
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At last dearest Louisa I take up my pen to address you	B2
Here we are you see with the seven and seventy boxes	K
Courier Papa and Mamma the children and Mary and Susan	S
Here we all are at Rome and delighted of course with St Peter's	K
And very pleasantly lodged in the famous Piazza di Spagna	Z
Rome is a wonderful place but Mary shall tell you about it	P
Not very gay however the English are mostly at Naples	K
There are the A 's we hear and most of the W party	L
George however is come did I tell you about his mustachios	K
Dear I must really stop for the carriage they tell me is waiting	J
Mary will finish and Susan is writing they say to Sophia	Z
Adieu dearest Louise evermore your faithful Georgina	Z
Who can a Mr Claude be whom George has taken to be with	C2
Very stupid I think but George says so very clever	I
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IV Claude to Eustace	K
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No the Christian faith as at any rate I understood it	P
With its humiliations and exaltations combining	J
Exaltations sublime and yet diviner abasements	K
Aspirations from something most shameful here upon earth and	D2
In our poor selves to something most perfect above in the heavens	K
No the Christian faith as I at least understood it	P
Is not here O Rome in any of these thy churches	K
Is not here but in Freiburg or Rheims or Westminster Abbey	L
What in thy Dome I find in all thy recenter efforts	K
Is a something I think more rational far more earthly	L
Actual less ideal devout not in scorn and refusal	G
But in a positive calm Stoic Epicurean acceptance	K
This I begin to detect in St Peter's and some of the churches	K
Mostly in all that I see of the sixteenth century masters	K
Overlaid of course with infinite gauds and gewgaws	K
Innocent playful follies the toys and trinkets of childhood	E2
Forced on maturer years as the serious one thing needful	G
By the barbarian will of the rigid and ignorant Spaniard	C
Curious work meantime re entering society how we	L
Walk a livelong day great Heaven and watch our shadows	K
What our shadows seem forsooth we will ourselves be	L
Do I look like that you think me that then I am that	F2
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V Claude to Eustace	K
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Luther they say was unwise like a half taught German he could not	G2
See that old follies were passing most tranquilly out of remembrance	K
Leo the Tenth was employing all efforts to clear out abuses	K
Jupiter Juno and Venus Fine Arts and Fine Letters the Poets	K
Scholars and Sculptors and Painters were quietly clearing away the	Z
Martyrs and Virgins and Saints or at any rate Thomas Aquinas	K
He must forsooth make a fuss and distend his huge Wittenberg lungs and	D2
Bring back Theology once yet again in a flood upon Europe	H2
Lo you for forty days from the windows of heaven it fell the	Z
Waters prevail on the earth yet more for a hundred and fifty	L
Are they abating at last the doves that are sent to explore are	I
Wearily fain to return at the best with a leaflet of promise	K
Fain to return as they went to the wandering wave tost vessel	G
Fain to re enter the roof which covers the clean and the unclean	S
Luther they say was unwise he didn't see how things were going	J
Luther was foolish but O great God what call you Ignatius	K
O my tolerant soul be still but you talk of barbarians	K
Alaric Attila Genseric why they came they killed they	I2
Ravaged and went on their way but these vile tyrannous Spaniards	K
These are here still how long O ye heavens in the country of Dante	I2
These that fanaticized Europe which now can forget them release not	G2
This their choicest of prey this Italy here you see them	J2
Here with emasculate pupils and gimcrack churches of Gesu	K
Pseudo learning and lies confessional boxes and postures	K
Here with metallic beliefs and regimental devotions	K
Here overcrusting with slime perverting defacing debasing	J
Michael Angelo's Dome that had hung the Pantheon in heaven	S
Raphael's Joys and Graces and thy clear stars Galileo	J
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VI Claude to Eustace	K
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Which of three Misses Trevellyn it is that Vernon shall marry	L
Is not a thing to be known for our friend is one of those natures	K
Which have their perfect delight in the general tender domestic	J
So that he trifles with Mary's shawl ties Susan's bonnet	O
Dances with all but at home is most they say with Georgina	Z
Who is however too silly in my apprehension for Vernon	S
I as before when I wrote continue to see them a little	G
Not that I like them muc	J

Arthur Hugh Clough

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