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What it was struck the terror into me	A
This Publius closer while we wait our turn	B
I'll tell you Water's warm they ring inside	C
At the eighth hour till when no use to bathe	D
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Here in the vestibule where now we sit	E
One scarce stood yesterday the throng was such	F
Of loyal gapers folk all eye and ear	G
While Lucius Varius Rufus in their midst	H
Read out that long planned late completed piece	I
His Panegyric on the Emperor	J
Nobody like him little Flaccus laughed	K
At leading forth an Epos with due pomp	L
Only when godlike C sar swells the theme	M
How should mere mortals hope to praise aright	K
Tell me thou offshoot of Etruscan kings	N
Whereat M cenas smiling sighed assent	K
I paid my quadrans left the Therm roar	O
Of rapture as the poet asked What place	P
Among the godships Jove for C sar's sake	Q
Would bid its actual occupant vacate	K
In favor of the new divinity	K
And got the expected answer Yield thine own	R
Jove thus dethroned I somehow wanted air	S
And found myself a pacing street and street	K
Letting the sunset rosy over Rome	T
Clear my head dizzy with the hubbub say	U
As if thought's dance therein had kicked up dust	K
By trampling on all else the world lay prone	R
As poet propped in brave hexameters	U
Their subject triumphed up from man to God	K
Caius Octavius C sar the August	K
Where was escape from his prepotency	U
I judge I may have passed how many piles	U
Of structure dropt like doles from his free hand	K
To Rome on every side Why right and left	K
For temples you've the Thundering Jupiter	J
Avenging Mars Apollo Palatine	V
How count Piazza Forum there's a third	K
All but completed You've the Theatre	J
Named of Marcellus all his work such work	W
One thought still ending dominating all	X
With warrant Varius sang Be C sar God	K
By what a hold arrests he Fortune's wheel	Y
Obtaining and retaining heaven and earth	Z
Through Fortune if you like but favor no	A2
For the great deeds flashed by me fast and thick	B2
As stars which storm the sky on autumn nights	U
Those conquests but peace crowned them so of peace	U
Count up his titles only these in few	C2
Ten years Triumvir Consul thirteen times	U
Emperor nay the glory topping all	X
Hailed Father of his Country last and best	K
Of titles by himself accepted so	A2
And why not See but feats achieved in Rome	T
Not to say Italy he planted there	S
Some thirty colonies but Rome itself	D2
All new built marble now brick once he boasts	U
This Portico that Circus Would you sail	E2
He has drained Tiber for you would you walk	F2
He straightened out the long Flaminian Way	U
Poor Profit by his score of donatives	U
Rich that is mirthful Half a hundred games	U
Challenge your choice There's Rome for you and me	K
Only The centre of the world besides	U
For look the wide world over where ends Rome	T
To sunrise There's Euphrates all between	G2
To sunset Ocean and immensity	K
North stare till Danube stops you South see Nile	H2
The Desert and the earth upholding Mount	K
Well may the poet people each with each	I2
Vie in his praise our company of swans	U
Virgil and Horace singers in their way	U
Nearly as good as Varius though less famed	K
Well may they cry No mortal plainly God	K
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Thus to myself myself said while I walked	K
Or would have said could thought attain to speech	I2
Clean baffled by enormity of bliss	U
The while I strove to scale its heights and sound	K
Its depths this Amsterdam o'er all the world	K
Of one who was but born like you like me	K
Like all the world he owns of flesh and blood	K
But he how grasp how gauge his own conceit	K
Of bliss to me near inconceivable	J2
Or since such flight too much makes reel the brain	K2
Let's sink and so take refuge as it were	J
From life's excessive altitude to lift's	U
Breathable wayside shelter at its base	U
If blooms thus large this C sar to myself	D2
Of senatorial rank and somebody	K
How must he strike the vulgar nameless crowd	K
In numerous swarm that's nobody at all	X
Why for an instance much as yon gold shape	L2
Crowned sceptred on the temple opposite	K
Fulgurant Jupiter must daze the sense	U
Of say yon outcast begging from its step	M2
What Anti C sar monarch in the mud	K
As he is pinnacled above thy pate	K
Ay beg away thy lot contrasts full well	N2
With his whose bounty yields thee this support	K
Our Holy and Inviolable One	O2
C sar whose bounty built the fane above	P2
Dost read my thought Thy garb alack displays	U
Sore usage truly in each rent and stain	K2
Faugh Wash though in Suburra 'Ware the dogs	U
Who may not so disdain a meal on thee	K
What stretchest forth a palm to catch my alms	U
Aha why yes I must appear who knows	U
I in my toga to thy rags and thee	K
Qu stor nay dile Censor Pol perhaps	U
The very City Pr tor's noble self	D2
As to me C sar so to thee am I	Q2
Good nor in vain shall prove thy quest poor rogue	R2
Hither hold palm out take this quarter as	U
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And who did take it As he raised his head	K
My gesture was a trifle well abrupt	K
Back fell the broad flap of the peasant's hat	K
The homespun cloak that muffled half his check	S2
Dropped somewhat and I had a glimpse just one	O2
One was enough Whose whose might be the face	U
That unkempt careless hair brown yellowish	T2
Those sparkling eyes beneath their eyebrows' ridge	U2
Each meets each and the hawk nose rules between	G2
That was enough no glimpse was needed more	O
And terrifyingly into my mind	K
Came that quick hushed report was whispered us	U
They do say once a year in sordid garb	V2
He plays the mendicant sits all day long	W2
Asking and taking alms of who may pass	U
And so averting if submission help	X2
Fate's envy the dread chance and change of things	U
When Fortune for a word a look a naught	K
Turns spiteful and the petted lioness	U
Strikes with her sudden paw and prone falls each	I2
Who patted late her neck superiorly	N2
Or trifled with those claw tips velvet sheathed	K
He's God shouts Lucius Varius Rufus Man	Y2
And worms' meat any moment mutters low	N2
Some Power admonishing the mortal born	Z2
Ay do you mind There's meaning in the fact	K
That whoso conquers triumphs enters Rome	T
Climbing the Capitolian soaring thus	U
To glory's summit Publius do you mark	A3
Ever the same attendant who behind	K
Above the Conqueror's head supports the crown	B3
All too demonstrative for human wear	S
One hand's employment all the while reserves	U
Its fellow backward flung to point how close	U
Appended from the car beneath the foot	K
Of the up borne exulting Conqueror	J
Frown half descried the instruments of shame	C3
The malefactor's due Crown now Cross when	D3
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Who stands secure Are even Gods so safe	E3
Jupiter that just now is dominant	K
Are not there ancient dismal tales how once	U
A predecessor reigned ere Saturn came	C3
And who can say if Jupiter be last	K
Was it for nothing the gray Sibyl wrote	K
C sar Augustus regnant shall be born	Z2
In blind Jud a one to master him	F3
Him and the universe An old wife's tale	N2
Bath drudge Here slave No cheating Our turn next	K
No loitering or be sure you taste the lash	G3
Two strigils two oil drippers each a sponge	H3

Robert Browning

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