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70 Truly that was the mission of ancient Greece. What we get from Tino's modern Greece is not civilization but the little black currants for plum-cake.

Rome. Greece may be dead or in the currant trade. Rome is alive and immortal. Do not talk to me about Signor Giolitti, who is quite sure that the only things that matter in this new Italy, which is old Rome, are her commercial relations with Germany. Rome of the legions, our ancient mistress and conqueror, is alive today, and she cannot be for an ignoble peace. Here in my newspaper is the speech of a poet spoken in Rome to a shouting crowd: I will cut out the column and put it in the Poetry Book.

calls to the living and to the dead: "I saw the fire of Vesta, O Romans, lit