April Twilights and Other Poems

<h3><SPAN name="THE_GAUL_IN_THE_CAPITOL" id="THE_GAUL_IN_THE_CAPITOL"></SPAN>THE GAUL IN THE CAPITOL</h3> <div class="poetry"> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0"><span class="letra">T</span>he murmur of old, old water,<br/></span> <span class="i2">The yellow of old, old stone,<br/></span> <span class="i0">The fountain that sings through the silence,<br/></span> <span class="i2">The river-god, dreaming alone;<br/></span> <span class="i0">The Antonine booted and mounted<br/></span> <span class="i2">In his sun-lit, hill-top place,<br/></span> <span class="i0">The Julians, gigantic in armour,<br/></span> <span class="i2">The low-browed Claudian race.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">The wolf and the twin boys she suckled,<br/></span> <span class="i2">And the powerful breed they bred;<br/></span> <span class="i0">Caesars of duplicate empires,<br/></span> <span class="i2">All under one roof-stead.<br/></span> <span class="i0">Fronting these fronts triumphant,<br/></span> <span class="i2">Conquest on conquest pressed<br/></span> <span class="i0">By these marching, arrogant masters,<br/></span> <span class="i2">Who could have hoped for the West?<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">At the feet of his multiple victors,<br/></span> <span class="i2">Beaten and dazed and dumb,<br/></span> <span class="i0">One, from the wild new races,<br/></span> <span class="i2">Clay of the kings to come.<br/></span> <span class="i0">Hail, in the halls of the Caesars!<br/></span> <span class="i2">Hail, from the thrones oversea!<br/></span> <span class="i0">Sheath of the sword-like vigour,<br/></span> <span class="i2">Sap of the kings to be!<br/></span> <span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="page_50" id="page_50">{50}</SPAN></span></div> </div></div> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />