Poems of Giosuè Carducci
Translated by Frank Sewall
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I ROMA
ROMA
Give to the wind thy locks; all glittering Thy sea-blue eyes, and thy white bosom bared, Mount to thy chariots, while in speechless roaring Terror and Force before thee clear the way!
The shadow of thy helmet like the flashing Of brazen star strikes through the trembling air. The dust of broken empires, cloud-like rising, Follows the awful rumbling of thy wheels.
So once, O Rome, beheld the conquered nations Thy image, object of their ancient dread. To-day a mitre they would place upon
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