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- For the Roman orator and author, see Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero
The Roman orator spoke out
'midst civil war and strife:
«Too long I slumbered, and Rome's night
Has overtaken me upon my journey! »
True! But in parting with Rome's glory
From the Capitoline heights
You watched in all its grandeur
The setting of her bloody sun! . . .
Blessed are they who sojourned here
In this world's fateful hours-
For they were summoned by the angels
As guests to a great feast;
They witnessed spectacles majestic,
Were brought into the inner circle,
And, while there, drank immortal life
From heav'n's own chalice!