...its significance in the following words (subsequently translated by the English poet, Lord Byron): While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand When falls...Rome shall fall And when Rome falls — the world. In short, the Coliseum is a structure that has for centuries embodied the soul of a city that still...

...Crystal Palace. He concluded with a quotation from Byron's Childe Harold's Pilgrimage that everyone knew: "While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand; /When...Rome shall fall; /And when Rome falls, the world." The statuary and architecture of Rome would outlast the institutions, inventions, and buildings of...

...for which this tale is told : A horse can trot, for all he 's old. AN APPEAL FOR "THE OLD SOUTH" " While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand ; When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall." FULL sevenscore years our city's pride — The comely Southern spire — Has cast its shadow, and defied...