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Excerpt from The Pope, Vol. 2 of 3: A Novel "While stands the Colosseum, Rome shall stand; When falls the Colosseum, Rome shall fall; And when Rome falls - the world.' From our own land Thus spake the pilgrims o'er this mighty wall In Saxon times, which we are wont to call Ancient. And these three mortal things are still On their foundations, and unaltered all: Rome and her ruin past redemption's skill, The world the same wide den - of thieves, or what you will." Byron. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.