Rome Burns While
Caesar Fiddles
Be it ever so crumbly,
there's no place like Rome.
Caesar*, he was the emperor, and the palace was his home.
But he liked to play with matches and for the fire yearned;
So, he burned Rome to ashes and fiddled while it burned.
* Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus (37 – 68)
was
the fifth and last Roman Emperor
of the Julio-Claudian dynasty (54–68)