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I tread the vast deserted stage	A
Whereon the Caesars lived and died	B
The relics of Rome's golden age	A
Lie strewn about me far and wide	B
Mementoes of an empire's pride	B
The homes of men once deified	B
	-
What are they now Stupendous piles	C
Of mouldering corridors and walls	D
On which alike the sunshine smiles	C
And cold the rain of winter falls	D
A wilderness of roofless halls	D
Whose tragic history appalls	D
	-
Below me like an opened grave	E
The Forum's excavations lie	F
Where column arch and architrave	E
In solemn grandeur greet the eye	F
Still guarding 'neath Italia's sky	F
The glory that can never die	F
	-
And here above me and around	G
In part still shrouded by the soil	H
A stony chaos strews the ground	G
Where patient students delve and toil	H
To bring to light Time's buried spoil	H
And History's tangled threads uncoil	H
	-
Halt where thou standest Rome was born	I
These stones by Romulus were placed	J
When on that far off April morn	I
Two snow white bulls the furrow traced	J
For Rome's first wall which firmly based	J
Two thousand years have not effaced	J
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From these rude blocks how vast the bound	J
To that huge labyrinthine mass	K
Through which the secret pathways wound	J
Where emperors if alarmed could pass	K
Yet even there could find alas	K
The poignard or the poisoned glass	K
	-
What ghastly crimes these rooms recall	L
Here Nero watched his brother drain	M
The fatal draught then lifeless fall	L
Here too Caligula was slain	M
When shrieking with disordered brain	M
He pleaded for his life in vain	M
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At every turn some pallid ghost	J
With haggard features seems to rise	N
To join the long drawn murdered host	J
That moves with sad averted eyes	N
Like victims to a sacrifice	O
To where the Via Sacra lies	N
	-
Behold the mighty Judgment Hall	L
Where Nero with indifferent air	P
Remarked the pleading of St Paul	L
Nor dreamed the man before him there	P
Would soon be read and reverenced where	P
The Roman empire had no share	P
	-
Where are they all those men of pride	J
Whose palace was the Palatine	Q
From Romulus the fratricide	J
To Hadrian and Constantine	R
The last of all the western line	Q
Of Caesars who were deemed divine	Q
	-
And all the millions who were swayed	J
By those who dwelt upon this hill	S
And who in humble awe obeyed	J
The dictates of their sovereign will	S
Are they self conscious beings still	S
Or are their minds and bodies Nil	S
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I watch our planet's god decline	Q
Behind the tomb girt Appian Way	T
The old imperial Palatine	Q
Grows purple 'neath the sun's last ray	T
Shades of the Caesars if ye may	T
The mystery of death portray	T
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Are there in truth Elysian Fields	U
And is there life beyond the grave	E
Or are the years that Nature yields	U
Confined this side the Stygian wave	E
For those who more existence crave	E
Is there a Power to help and save	E
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Alas no answer on their hill	S
The murdered Caesars make no sign	Q
Their myriad subjects too are still	S
Mute as the voiceless Palatine	Q
Yet overhead the fixed stars shine	Q
And bid us trust in the Divine	Q

John L. Stoddard

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