Here lies One Whose Name was writ in Water.

Behind the Piramide are bodies, lying in plots of Il Cimitero Accatolico Di Roma. Here there is a population of cats that move silently among the stones. These tailed wraiths keep watch over the remains while Cypress trees rise conically above the surrounding Roman walls. Since 1730, this cemetery has been in use as the burial ground for non-catholics living in Papal Rome. Here lies John Keats and Percy Shelley. They rest under headstones, modest in comparison to their neighbors. Their epitaphs, the epitaphs of Romantics.

Shelley:

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Cor Cor Dium

Natus IV Aug MDCCXCII

OBIT VIII Jul MDCCCXXII

Nothing of him that doth fade

But doth suffer a sea=change

Into something rich and strange

Keats:

This Grave

contains all that was Mortal,

of a

YOUNG ENGLISH POET

Who

on his death bed

in the bitterness of his heart

at the malicious power of his enemies

desired

these words to be engraven on his tomb stone

"Here lies One Whose Name was writ in Water"

Feb 23rd 1821

Io sono senza parole come loro sono.