<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=536341" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A New Pilgrimage: Sonnet XXXVI</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The majesty of Rome to me is nought;<br>The imperial story of her conquering car<br>Touches me only with compassionate thought<br>For the doomed nations faded by her star.<br>Her palaces of Caesars tombstones are<br>For a whole world of freedoms vainly caught<br>In her high fortune. Throned was she in war;<br>By war she perished. So is justice wrought.<br>A nobler Rome is here, which shall not die.<br>She rose from the dead ashes of men's lust,<br>And robed herself anew in chastity,<br>And half redeemed man's heritage of dust.<br>This Rome I fain would love, though darkly hid<br>In mists of passion and desires scarce dead.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Wilfrid+Scawen+Blunt">Wilfrid Scawen Blunt</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=536341" data-title="A New Pilgrimage: Sonnet XXXVI de Wilfrid Scawen Blunt" data-description="The majesty of Rome to me is nought; The imperial story of her conquering car Touches me only with compassionate thought For the doomed nations faded by her star. Her palaces of Caesars tombstones are For a whole world of freedoms vainly caught In..."></div> </div> </div>

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