Erotica Romana

<p><SPAN name="link2H_4_0002" id="link2H_4_0002"></SPAN></p> <h2> II </h2> <p>Tell me ye stones and give me O glorious palaces answer.<br/> <br/> Speak O ye streets but one word. Genius, art thou alive?<br/> <br/> Yes, here within thy sanctified walls there's a soul in each object,<br/> <br/> ROMA eternal. For me, only, are all things yet mute.<br/> <br/> Who will then tell me in whispers and where must I find just the window<br/> <br/> Where one day she'll be glimpsed: creature who'll scorch me with love?<br/> <br/> Can't I divine yet the paths through which over and over<br/> <br/> To her and from her I'll go, squandering valuable time?<br/> <br/> Visiting churches and palaces, all of the ruins and the pillars,<br/> <br/> I, a responsible man, profit from making this trip.<br/> <br/> With my business accomplished, ah, then shall only one temple,<br/> <br/> AMOR's temple alone, take the initiate in.<br/> <br/> Rome, thou art a whole world, it is true, and yet without love this<br/> <br/> World would not be the world, Rome would cease to be Rome.<br/></p> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />