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... ruin ! she weeps not , Tears in their fountains dried have marble grown ; Despair's last pulse is stilled ; the deed is wrought That hurled her reason headlong from its throne : Branchless and lightning - stricken , and alone She lives ...
... ruin ! she weeps not , Tears in their fountains dried have marble grown ; Despair's last pulse is stilled ; the deed is wrought That hurled her reason headlong from its throne : Branchless and lightning - stricken , and alone She lives ...
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... ruin ; there Tortured and writhing in the abyss he lies , Yet on his shivered forehead he doth bear The flickering hues and light of his lost skies ; Behold in eddying wreaths how o'er him rise The smoke , the reek , the steam of his ...
... ruin ; there Tortured and writhing in the abyss he lies , Yet on his shivered forehead he doth bear The flickering hues and light of his lost skies ; Behold in eddying wreaths how o'er him rise The smoke , the reek , the steam of his ...
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... is Rome , gray matron on the ground , O'er her waste brow oblivion's ashes shed ? Where she who sate upon her seven hills crowned ? Still raising haughtily her regal head , The majesty of ruin round her spread ? Where sits ITALY . 45.
... is Rome , gray matron on the ground , O'er her waste brow oblivion's ashes shed ? Where she who sate upon her seven hills crowned ? Still raising haughtily her regal head , The majesty of ruin round her spread ? Where sits ITALY . 45.
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John Edmund Reade. The majesty of ruin round her spread ? Where sits that queen who time and fate defied , Bidding kings kneel before her glories fled ? Lo , yon far shrine , she hath but changed her pride : Ambition claims from heaven ...
John Edmund Reade. The majesty of ruin round her spread ? Where sits that queen who time and fate defied , Bidding kings kneel before her glories fled ? Lo , yon far shrine , she hath but changed her pride : Ambition claims from heaven ...
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... ruin ? who aroused at last Avenging Nemesis that fate - like fell Yourselves to crush ? your power who overcast To dust , to teach once more the present by the past ? XLVI . Who saw , and felt , but spurned the lessons taught By fall of ...
... ruin ? who aroused at last Avenging Nemesis that fate - like fell Yourselves to crush ? your power who overcast To dust , to teach once more the present by the past ? XLVI . Who saw , and felt , but spurned the lessons taught By fall of ...
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