Osip Emilevich Mandelstam - Nature's the same as Rome, was reflected in it

Nature's the same as Rome, was reflected in it. <br />We see images of its civic might <br />In the clear air, as in the sky-blue circus, <br />In the forum of fields, the colonnade of the grove. <br /> <br />Nature is the same as Rome, again it seems <br />We have no reason to trouble the gods. <br />We've got the viscera of the sacrifices <br />To tell the fortunes of war, and slaves <br />To keep the silence, and stones with which to build.<br /><br />Osip Emilevich Mandelstam<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/nature-s-the-same-as-rome-was-reflected-in-it/