 Lone mother of dead empires! and control In their shut breasts their petty misery. What are our woes and sufferance? Come and see The cypress, hear the owl, and plod your way O'er steps of broken thrones and temples, Ye!  The works, of ... lord Byron - Page 36by George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1819Full view - About this book
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...woes and sufferanee ? Come and see The cypress, hear the owl, and plod your way O'er steps of hroken thrones and temples, Ye ! Whose agonies are evils...a day — A world is at our feet as fragile as our elay. Lxxvl. LxxIx. The Niohe of nations ! there she stands, l Childless and crownless, in her voiceless... | |
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...their petty misery. What are our woes and sufferance? Come and see The cypress, hear the owl, and plod your way O'er steps of broken thrones and temples, Ye ! Whose agonies are evils of a day — Л world is at our feet as fragile as oar clay. LXXIX. The Niobe of nations! there she stands,(l)... | |
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...and see The cypress, hear the owl, and plod your way O'er steps of broken thrones and temples, Ye I "Whose agonies are evils of a day — A world is at our feet as fragile as our clay. ***** ' Arches on arches ! as it were that Eome, Collecting the chief trophies of her line, Would build... | |
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