Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Italy: Vols. XI–XIII. 1876–79. | | | | Rome, the Campagna | | Roman Roads | | John Dyer (1700?–1758) |
| | (From Ruins of Rome)
AND see from every gate those ancient roads, | |
| With tombs high-verged, the solemn paths of fame; | |
| Deserve they not regard? O’er whose broad flints | |
| Such crowds have rolled, so many storms of war; | |
| Such trains of consuls, tribunes, sages, kings; | 5 |
| So many pomps; so many wondering realms: | |
| Yet still through mountains pierced, o’er valleys raised, | |
| In even state, to distant seas around, | |
| They stretch their pavements. | | | | |
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