Saint Peter's Square (Italian: Piazza San Pietro, ) is located directly in front of St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican City, the papal enclave within Rome (the Piazza borders to the East the rione of Borgo).
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“Saint Peter sat by the celestial gate:
His keys were rusty, and the lock was dull,”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)
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For he today that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne’er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition.
And gentlemen in England now abed
Shall think themselves accursed they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin’s day.”
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Is Patience:”
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