Sant’Apollinaire Nuovo, Ravenna
Your hands brush marble, feel impelled
To touch where crisp cold tesserae
Compose a fine array
Of arches that once held
A gallery of courtiers with gifts they gave
A throne in mosaic palace down a long cool nave.
Now strung between the arches like a tapestry
Hang folds that robbed Theoderic of his majesty.
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