OUR SENTIMENTAL GARDEN 



moment when the Lateran Church first gathers shape 

 against the sky. All those statues with tossing gesture 

 against the faint blue of the new day, heroic figures with 

 outstretched arms seeming to gather pilgrims into the city , 

 and in the midst of them the Saviour uplifting the Cross of 

 Salvation ! To the believer what a welcome ! And it is 

 Rome herself at a glance, too / for if the Church stands 

 here beckoning between earth and sky, she is jostled below 

 and round about by the still speaking wonders of old Pagan 

 Rome. 



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