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First Line: Amidst these scenes, o pilgrim, seek'st thou rome?
Last Line: Nought but the wave, a fugitive, -- remains.
Alternate Author Name(s): Quevedo, Francisco Gomez De; Quevedo, Francisco De
Subject(s): Rome, Italy


AMIDST these scenes, O pilgrim! seek'st thou Rome!
Vain is thy search -- the pomp of Rome is fled;
Her silent Aventine is glory's tomb;
Her walls, her shrines, but relics of the dead.

That hill, where Caesars dwelt in other days,
Forsaken mourns, where once it towered sublime;
Each mouldering medal now far less displays
The triumphs won by Latium, than by Time.

Tiber alone survives -- the passing wave,
That bathed her towers, now murmnrs by her grave.
Wailing, with plaintive sound, her fallen fanes.
Rome! of thine ancient grandeur, all is past,
That seemed for years eternal framed to last,
Nought but the wave, a fugitive, -- remains.





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