And The Ruins Of Ancient Rome Poem by Emmanuel George Cefai

Agreed, the ruins of an older civilization serves as a warning to the existing one - Your time too will pass. Beware! I feel that acutely in so far as what some have the American Century is receding. I taught for over twenty years with a brilliant history teacher who alas drew all the wrong conclusions from his vast knowledge. For him the USA is the non pareil and other nation-states should shudder and obey. Doesn't that sound imperial? Like Shelley's Ozymandias, Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. And it's all ruins of his glory that surround the boast.