I wonder do you feel today
As I have felt since, hand in hand,
We sat down on the grass, to stray
In spirit better through the land,
This morn of Rome and May?

For me, I touched a thought, I know,
Has tantalized me many times,
(Like turns of thread the...

[60] RÖMISCHE CAMPAGNA

Aus der vollgestellten Stadt, die lieber
schliefe, träumend von den hohen Thermen,
geht der...

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Stop on the Appian Way,
  In the Roman Campagna;
  Stop at my tomb,
The tomb of Cecilia Metella.
    To-day as you see it
Alaric saw it, ages ago,
When he, with his pale-visaged Goths,
  Sat at the gates of Rome,
  Reading his Runic...

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over the dumb campagna-sea,
  Out in the offing through mist and rain,
Saint Peter’s Church heaves silently
  Like a mighty ship in pain,
  Facing the tempest with struggle and strain.

Motionless waifs of ruined towers,
  Soundless...