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Quo Vadis

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It is as if imperial trumpets broke     Again the silence on War's iron height;     And Csar's armored legions marched to fight,     While Rome, blood-red upon her mountain-yoke,     Blazed like an awful sunset. At a stroke,     Again I see the living torches light     The horrible revels, and the bloated, white,     Bayed brow of Nero smiling through the smoke:     And here and there a little band of slaves     Among dark ruins; and the form of Paul,     Bearded and gaunt, expounding still the Word:     And towards the North the tottering architraves     Of empire; and, wild-waving over all,     The flaming figure of a Gothic sword.

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