It takes time to build castles. Rome wan not built in a day.

Irish proverbs
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Sam Maneksaw

Julius Caesar won many wars for Rome.
Rome was ungrateful to grant him death.
Sam Maneksaw won a great war for India
India was ungrateful to ignore his death.
No heads, of the ministry or the army,
Partook in his sidelined funerals.
Must we do extraordinary things,
Expecting any eternal gratitude?
28.06.2008

poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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Spanish Steps Of Rome

The first time I saw her
She was wearing scarves of white
That little spark between us
Took only seconds to ignite
And then it occured to me
Suddenly I was standing there alone
On the spanish steps of rome
I kept searching through the ally
Searching through the catacombe that night
I closed my eyes and threw a coin in the fountain
Then I looked and she was nowhere in sight
I wandered through the holy city
Like a beggar beneath the moon lit dome
Near the spanish steps of rome
I heard a voice as I looked through my fingers
And saw the old monsignor
He gave me his blessing and said
Dont try and please her
And then I heard her singing like some diva
Perched upon her throne

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Home In Heaven

Thankfully, our home’s in Heaven, and this earth we just pass through,
On to a place where no one’s been, one special place for me and you.
Friend, our Lord, had said to us, before, to Heaven, Christ did depart,
In God and in Him, to place our trust, so not to have, a troubled heart.

Speaking to those, who by Grace, in Christ the Savior, we do believe,
He has prepared for us a place, that once in Heaven, we shall receive.
Friend, it is that place we long for, and one, our eyes have yet to see,
The one special place, from our Lord, where we will spend an eternity.

One far above this temporal earth, which we’ve come to know so well,
That is fashioned with eternal worth, and absent of the powers of Hell.
The City that Abraham looked for, which wasn’t upon this earthly sod,
A City built by Christ, the Lord, The Eternal City of our Lord and God.

A place prepared with the hands, of this earth’s Creator, Jesus Christ,
Who placed all the sea and lands, prepared us a home for eternal life.
An eternal place to be our very own, where there will be no more night,
Placed by Him, around His Throne; where Christ will be the Only Light.

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poem by Bob Gotti
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He who wishes to live at Rome must not quarrel with the pope.

French proverbs
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When in Rome, live as the Romans do; when elsewhere, live as they live elsewhere.

quote by Saint Ambrose
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When In Rome

Well, you must be from the city
'Cause you sure ain't from round here
There ain't no smoke free section
We don't sell no import beer.
You been throwin' round that attitude
Since you walked in that door
I don't know where you come from
But you ain't there anymore
When in Rome,
You can do like the Roman's
But, when your down home
You better do like us.
You been lookin' down your nose
At our water tower town
Ain't no one getting rich
But, there's enough to go around.
If ya don't like tracy's cookin'
Well, ya best still leave a tip
She's back there in that kitchen
With a baby on her hip.

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It is found written in chronicles made by our ancestors of Florence, men of old time and of credibility, even as Giovanni Villani writes, that the city of Florence was evidently built in imitation of the fair city of Rome; and certain remnants of the Colosseum and the Baths can yet be traced.

Benvenuto Cellini in The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini (1563), translated by John Addington Symonds
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Rome is my most favorite city, so I really enjoy to stay here and the whole tournament.

quote by Daniela Hantuchova
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Rome And Nature

Rome has fallen, ye see it lying
Heaped in undistinguished ruin:
Nature is alone undying.

poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Rome has grown since its humble beginnings that it is now overwhelmed by its own greatness.

quote by Titus Livius
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Rome has not seen a modern building in more than half a century. It is a city frozen in time.

quote by Richard Meier
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When you are at Rome live in the Roman style when you are elsewhere live as they live elsewhere.

quote by Saint Ambrose
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Offend one monk, and the lappets of all cowls will flutter as far as Rome.

German proverbs
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To Virgil

Written at the Request of the Mantuans for the Nineteenth Centenary of
Virgil's Death

Roman Virgil, thou that singest
Ilion's lofty temples robed in fire,
Ilion falling, Rome arising,
wars, and filial faith, and Dido's pyre;

Landscape-lover, lord of language
more than he that sang the Works and Days,
All the chosen coin of fancy
flashing out from many a golden phrase;

Thou that singest wheat and woodland,
tilth and vineyard, hive and horse and herd;
All the charm of all the Muses
often flowering in a lonely word;

Poet of the happy Tityrus

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poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Marlena My First Cousin Born

Marlena who is my first cousin born on Jenek side,

traveled with her family worldwide.

Marlena was born in Rome as an infant

her Dad worked for the government,

Yes, Marlena was born in Rome,

far away from her first Virginia home.

Marlena celebrated her 40th birthday in this Italian city,

Rome was very sheik, elegant and pretty.

Marlena lives in L.A. now on the other coast,

she's had an interesting life, she never boasts.

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poem by Christina Sunrise
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Marlena My First Cousin Born

Marlena who is my first cousin born on Jenek side,

traveled with her family worldwide.

Marlena was born in Rome as an infant

her Dad worked for the government,

Yes, Marlena was born in Rome,

far away from her first Virginia home.

Marlena celebrated her 40th birthday in this Italian city,

Rome was very sheik, elegant and pretty.

Marlena lives in L.A. now on the other coast,

she's had an interesting life, she never boasts.

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poem by Suzae Chevalier
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The Trial of the Gods

NEVER nobler was the Senate,
Never grander the debate:
Rome's old gods are on their trial
By the judges of the state!
Torn by warring creeds, the Fathers
Urge to-day the question home—
'Whether Jupiter or Jesus
Shall be God henceforth in Rome?'

Lo, the scene! In Jove's own temple,
As of old, the Fathers meet;
Through the porch, to hear the speeches,
Press the people from the street.
Pontiffs, rich with purple vesture,
Pass from senate chair to chair;
Learned augurs, still as statues—
Voiceless statues, too—are there;
Vestal virgins, white with terror,
Mutely asking—what has come?
What new light shall turn to darkness

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poem by John Boyle O'Reilly
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Nature's the same as Rome, was reflected in it

Nature's the same as Rome, was reflected in it.
We see images of its civic might
In the clear air, as in the sky-blue circus,
In the forum of fields, the colonnade of the grove.

Nature is the same as Rome, again it seems
We have no reason to trouble the gods.
We've got the viscera of the sacrifices
To tell the fortunes of war, and slaves
To keep the silence, and stones with which to build.

poem by Osip Emilevich Mandelstam
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But my mother loved The Elephant Man, and my father gave David Lynch a scholarship to study in Rome.

quote by Isabella Rossellini
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