| William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. (1878–1962). Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1920. 1920. |
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| THE WHITE-WALLED Rome of an unwritten epic, | |
| Spreading like the waters of a new well run; | |
| Drinking at the lips of a clear green river | |
| Rising in the fountains and the wells of the sun! | |
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| Nothing of imperial dust in her cellars, | 5 |
| Nothing of the torn old tower and dome; | |
| Mistress of her clean white halls unhaunted— | |
| City of the sunrise, altar, and home! | |
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| City of the sunrise hills unhaunted | |
| By the skulls of kings and the ribs of decay; | 10 |
| Seeded in the earth like a clean deep tap-root— | |
| The granite in the oak of her boughs today! | |
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| A white ship built in a cool green forest | |
| And launched with the green leaves fresh on her bow, | |
| Sun on her sails and foam on her anchors, | 15 |
| Halfway out on her maiden trip now! | |
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| The clean new Rome of an unwritten epic, | |
| Spreading to the borders of a universal dream; | |
| A white ship launched on a universal river, | |
Steering for the sun at the mouth of the stream!
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