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And so I walked home. Better so, perhaps, after all, than in the lively sleigh, with the tinkling bells.
"It was a calm and silent night! -- Seven hundred years and fifty-three Had Rome been growing up to might, And now was queen of land and sea! No sound was heard of clashing wars, -- Peace brooded o'er the hushed domain; Apollo, Pallas, Jove, and Mars Held undisturbed their ancient reign In the solemn midnight, Centuries ago!"