Fyodor Ivanovich Tyutchev - Cicero

The Roman orator spoke out <br />'midst civil war and strife: <br />'Too long I slumbered, and Rome's night <br />Has overtaken me upon my journey!' <br />True! But in parting with Rom's glory <br />From the Capitoline heights <br />You watched in all its grandeur <br />The setting of her bloody sun! . . . <br />Blessed are they who sojourned here <br />In this world's fateful hours- <br />For they were summoned by the angels <br />As guests to a great feast; <br />They witnessed spectacles majestic, <br />Were brought into the inner circle, <br />And, while there, drank immortal life <br />From heav'n's own chalice!<br /><br />Fyodor Ivanovich Tyutchev<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/cicero/