That Mozart aria up there, which fl...

That Mozart aria up there, which floor? Ten?
which window, sixteenth from the left? Empires
were tumbling down and rising up again.
That "Non in such a manner piu," that lucid lion's cavern
that frail fortress's flight, that friendly fire,
that anapestic pulsing from Floor Ten
had to be heard precisely there and then,
claiming its makeshift right not to expire,
notwithstanding that empires were rising up again
and our concurrence had mixed with their mortar
single in kind Mozart tape may still salve the entire
globe's pain-if played in time forward some Floor Ten. ...