VIII

by Alfred, Lord Tennyson · (no date)
Published 01/07/1880
Part of To Virgil

Now thy Forum roars no longer,

fallen every purple Cæsar's dome—

Tho' thine ocean-roll of rhythm

sound forever of Imperial Rome—

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