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The sun had set, the city gates were passed, / Up swelled the mighty dome; / The dream of childhood had come true at last, / We were in Rome!
The fountains trembled in their light and shade, / The pale new moon was dropping down the sky, / The pillars of the stately colonnade
Seemed to be marching by.
And Rome lay all before us in its glory, / Its glory and its beautiful decay, / But, like the student in the oft-read story, / I could have turned away, / To the still chamber with its half-closed shutter, / Where the beloved father lay in pain, / To sit beside him in contentment utter, / Never to part again.