Rome

Portrait of Osip Mandelstam
Osip Mandelstam 1891–1938

Rome is but nature's twin, which has reflected Rome. We see its civic might, the signs of its decorum In the transparent air, the firmament's blue dome, The colonnades of groves and in the meadow's forum.

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