Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Italy: Vols. XI–XIII. 1876–79. | | | | Rome, Hills of | | Monte Cavallo | | Arthur Hugh Clough (1819–1861) |
| | (From Amours de Voyage)
YE, too, marvellous twain, that erect on the Monte Cavallo | |
| Stand by your rearing steeds in the grace of your motionless movement, | |
| Stand with your upstretched arms and tranquil regardant faces, | |
| Stand as instinct with life in the might of immutable manhood,— | |
| O ye mighty and strange, ye ancient divine ones of Hellas, | 5 |
| Are ye Christian too? to convert and redeem and renew you, | |
| Will the brief form have sufficed, that a pope has set up on the apex | |
| Of the Egyptian stone that o’ertops you, the Christian symbol? | |
| And ye, silent, supreme in serene and victorious marble, | |
| Ye that encircle the walls of the stately Vatican chambers, | 10 |
| Juno and Ceres, Minerva, Apollo, the Muses and Bacchus, | |
| Ye unto whom far and near come posting the Christian pilgrims, | |
| Ye that are ranged in the halls of the mystic Christian pontiff, | |
| Are ye also baptized? are ye of the Kingdom of Heaven? | |
| Utter, O some one, the word that shall reconcile Ancient and Modern! | 15 |
| Am I to turn me for this unto thee, great Chapel of Sixtus? | | | | |
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