Tag: rome
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Cityscrape
Not in one day had pagans built great Rome, strong even today, When would Her intact flower’s strength at touch’s hint decay. The rock’s proximity to the places of crossed rods, oaths of office. Crossed the coppice in odd shoes Folded neatly the clothes of an officer Cloves masked the stink of the drink that…
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The Roman Virtue
Retiring the ancient laws tiresome to a tyrant If you can have Gaul, you can have it all Vaults and halls, curtain calls, purple all An end to paucity If I could only fix my grubby paws to it.
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Arx tarpeia Capitoli proxima
Went from sticking to margins to brazen open marches Through ancient triumphal arches, caged in marble Trajan’s heart As prelate, I shall commission incredible works of truthless art I intend to make harmfully rich the Eternal City’s every starving artist One by one, the slow-gathered darknesses are harnessed Virgo ascendant in the stars, ‘longside Mars…
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Out tonight seeing everything
Flicking through the Picatrix half six triple six Glass filled with miraculous admix, mirabilis Mind a whorling Dervish Charybdis It’s like I’m in the temple, how many virgins I’m here to get my trix and I’m out, bouncing Vercingetorix footing it along the Styx, imprisoned year six Caesar’s edicts Gaul’s hauser housed by boughs once…
Alchemisland 