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First Line: Once, and but once again I dare to raise
Last Line: Like some lone column of his native rome!
Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord
Subject(s): Death; Rome, Italy; Dead, The


ONCE, and but once again I dare to raise
A voice which thou in spirit still may'st hear,
Now that thy bridal bed becomes a bier,
Now that thou canst not blush at thine own praise!
The ways of God are not as our best ways,
And thus we ask, with a convulsive tear,
Why is this northern blossom low and sere?
Why has it blest the south but these few days?
Another Basilic, * decked otherwise
Than that which hailed thee as a princely bride,
Receives thee and three little ones beside;
While the young lord of that late glorious home
Stands 'mid these ruins and these agonies,
Like some lone column of his native Rome!





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