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the gates of Hell are open night and day; smooth the descent and easy is the way
a marble temple stood within the grove, sacred to death, and to her murdered love
the dewy night unrolls a heaven thickly jewelled with sparkling stars
Full in the midst of this infernal road, an elm displays her dusky arms abroad
now if it pleases the powers about that nothing stand of this great city
the walls of Pluto's palace are in view
beneath the walls they measure out the space where, with piety their common gods they place.
which, then of homely clay, now rise in marble, from the Roman sway
he views the unguarded city from afar, in careless quiet
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scarce in our walls we keep our hopes alive