Rome is but nature's twin, which has reflected Rome. <br />We see its civic might, the signs of its decorum <br />In the transparent air, the firmament's blue dome, <br />The colonnades of groves and in the meadow's forum.<br /><br />Osip Emilevich Mandelstam<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/rome-14/