166 POZM!I oY auucrrow .urn IIZNTI1mln'.
'~t ~~ a£ tit «aliM= ba SIJOtltigbt.
I 8l'OOD within the Col!Jeu.mla wan
'Midst the chief relics of almighty Rome;
The tl-eee which grew along the broken ar¢helJ
Waved dark in tlie blue midnight, and the stan
Shone through the rents of ruin; from afar
The watch~og bay'd,beyond the Tiber; aM
More near from out the c-ars' palace came
The owl's long cry, and. interruptedly,
Of distant sentinel& the fitful aoog
Begun and died upon the ~entle wind.
Some eypreBBea upon the time-wom breach
Appear'd to akirt the horizon, yet th&y sto01l
Within a boWllhot-where the Oreul'll dwelt,
And dwell the tuneless birds of night amidst
A grove wbieb epringa through levell~d battlemebt!l,
And twinea ite roote with the imperial hearths,
Ivy uaurpa the laurel'a plaee of growth;-
Bnt the gladiator's bloody circus stands,
A noble wreck in ruinous perfection I
While Oa~BBr'a cnambers, and the Auguatan halla 1
Grovel on eJUth in indi.etinot deeay.-
A{Id thou did'st shine 1 thou rolling moon, lq>Oil
All this, and ca.et a Wlde and tender nght,
Which aoften'd down the bo:n: llUBt.erity
or rugged desolation, and fill'd up,
As 'twere anew, the gape of eentnriea;
Leavit\g that beautiful which etill WN so.
.And making that whleh was not, till the place
.Became religion, and the heart ran o'er
With aUent worship of the great of old!
The dead but sceptred eovereigna, who atillrule
Our apirlts from their urns. Brnolf.inwul:.ou ai Jnmam 5~•·
Lro leaves on trees the life of man i.e !duM,
Now green in youtb, 11ow Withering on the gro'dnd ;
A.notlier race tbe following spring RUppliee,
They fallaueeea8i•e and mcce111ive riae :
So generations lh their eourie deilay;
So 1louriah tbeae, when tho11e have pw'd a•Ay.
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