If Vesuvius had not decided the year 79
Would be suitable for burying Pompeii
Fifteen feet deep, Marcus Cerrinus Vatia,
Enthusiastically supported by the thieves
And his grandmother, might very well
Have been elected aedile and then
Everything would have been different.
The Comtesse might find herself today
A mere baronne and this poem
Be a strutting epic of three thousand lines
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