So what's this mean? Go dig the Troy in you Go NOT WITH RUINS IN YOUR MIND Go not with ruins in your mind Or beauty fails; Rome's sun is blind And catacomb your cold hotel! Where should-be heavens could-be hell. Beware the temblors and the flood That time hides fast in tourist's blood And shambles forth from hidden home At sight of lost-in-ruins Rome. Think on your joyless blood, take care, Rome's scattered bricks and bones lie there In every chromosome and gene Lie all that was, or might have been. All architectural tombs and thrones Are tossed to ruin in your bones. Time earthquakes there all life that grows And all your future darkness knows, Take not these inner ruins to Rome, A sad man wisely stays at home; For if your melancholy goes Where all is lost, then your loss grows And all the dark that self employs Will teem -so travel then with joys. Or else in ruins consummate A death that waited long and late, And all the burning towns of blood Will shake and fall from sane and good, And you with ruined sight will see A lost and ruined Rome. And thee? Cracked statue mended by noon's light
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