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The autumn sun still bravely streams	A
Along the tomb girt Appian Way	B
And warms the heart of one who dreams	A
Of all its splendor on the day	B
When Scipio triumphed bringing home	C
The spoils of Africa to Rome	C
	-
On this same road the conqueror came	D
Called Africanus the Divine	E
By thousands who adored his fame	D
And proudly watched the endless line	E
Of Punic captives in his train	F
And trophies won on Zama's plain	F
	-
To day the vast Campagna rolls	G
In stately grandeur to the sea	H
But where are now the countless souls	G
Whose dwelling place this used to be	H
When all its space to Ostia's gate	I
Lay peopled and inviolate	J
	-
Ask of the Claudian arches gray	B
Which stride toward Rome in broken lines	K
Ask of the lizards at their play	B
On relics of the Antonines	K
Ask of the fever blighted shore	L
Where Roman galleys ride no more	L
	-
Yet some poor traces still remain	F
Of those who here have lived and died	M
For underneath this solemn plain	F
The Christian catacombs still hide	M
A city of sepulchral gloom	N
The martyrs' labyrinthine tomb	N
	-
Moreover in this classic soil	O
Where sleeps so much of ancient Rome	C
A simple peasant at his toil	O
Discovered 'neath the upturned loam	C
The spot to which I now have come	P
A Roman Columbarium	P
	-
Down through its modern open door	L
A flood of mellow sunshine falls	K
In golden waves from roof to floor	L
Revealing in its moss grown walls	K
The dove cotes where one still discerns	K
The fragments of old funeral urns	K
	-
One vacant niche whose ampler space	K
Betokens special love and care	Q
Contained no doubt a sculptured face	K
Above the hallowed ashes there	Q
While just beneath faint letters spell	R
A faithful woman's fond farewell	R
	-
How often on love's winged feet	S
She doubtless sought this dear recess	K
To deck with floral offerings sweet	S
Her sepulchre of happiness	K
Whose script despite two thousand years	K
Preserves the memory of her tears	K
	-
Rome's annals hint not of the name	P
Of him whose dust lay treasured here	T
But could the fleeting breath of fame	P
Have made him to her heart more dear	U
A word of tenderness outweighs	K
In woman's soul a world of praise	K
	-
What though remote from pomp and state	I
At Caesar's court he could not shine	E
Less blest had surely been his fate	I
Upon the lustful Palatine	E
And mutual love wherever viewed	V
Is life's supreme beatitude	V
	-
Alas the urn no longer stands	K
Within the little alcove dim	P
Gone also are the faithful hands	K
That hung sweet roses on its rim	P
And vanished even is the bust	V
Which watched above the sacred dust	V
	-
Yet still its words of love survive	W
The shocks and tragedies of time	P
And bid our drooping hearts revive	W
Inculcating the faith sublime	P
That while the urn in ruin lies	K
Love soars immortal to the skies	K

John L. Stoddard

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