A LADY OF TRAVEL-RoME,
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BYJ BAYARD TAYLOR.
Wreck Of the fallen world


Ghost of the mighty Past,
Planet, that, crashing hurled,


Fell from its orbit vast
How have the later spheres


Rolled o'er thy ruined home!
How have thousand years


Scattered thy glory, Rome
Prone, like god like form
Stripped by the spelling worm,
Ravaged by the wind and storm


Gone is thy greatness, now
And in thy flied grave,
Washed by The Theirs wave,
The foot of the meanest slave


Tramples thy brow
Shadows of centuries glide,


Voiceless, around the scene
Phantoms of power and pride,


Gazing with mournful mien.
Temple and tomb and arch,


Shattered and lonely stand;
Rent by the Vandal's march


Spoiled by the robbers hand!
Far through the Flavian hall
Beasts of the desert crawl,
And on the Cesars' wall


Ivy and brambles grow;
Relics of temples lay
Heaped by the Appian way
Affairs to dull Decay,


Wondering slow!
Yet, 'mid the waits of Time


Llngers the fame of old
Calling, with voice sublime,


Out from its temples mould
What though the Pierad hills


Look on fettered land
Slaves by the Sabine rills-


Slaves on the Tyrshene strand
Still does thine empire last,
Ghost of god-like Past.
Still does the world SO vast


Yield TO thy silent swaY
Though in the food of years
Vanished both realms and spheres,
Thine mid the blood and tears,


Passed not away!
Viewless, yet potent still,


Reigneth the old renown,
ThIonged on the classic hill


Crown d with the deathless crown,
There, at its shrine adore,


Breathless, the sons of Art;
Led by the laws of yore,


States into being start.
Bards from Virgil caught
Germs of undyng thought
Thunders that Tully wrought


Burst upon tyrants now;
Realms of the Living Dead,
Reign, till by Freedom led,
Empires o'er earth shall spread,


Greater than thou!