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A Report though false at that time generally believed	A
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Fallen are thy towers Byzantium towers that stood	B
Before the Turk's dread fury when he came	C
The crescent sparkling amidst Christian blood	D
And to the reeking den of Moloch turned	E
Sophia's holy fane Where where are now	F
Imperial city the late proud remains	G
Of thy brave founder's greatness when he clothed	H
In worldly grandeur pure Religion's form	I
Then placed beside him placed upon a throne	J
The lowly Nazarene's meek simple child	K
He wandering then upon a Christian land	L
Stranger at home had been nor known again	M
His artless rites his followers in the domes	N
Filled with the sparkling shrine the rich robed priests	O
And pomp of earthly greatness But not long	P
Lived there his name Science and art farewell	Q
The foe of light and love Mohammed comes	R
And Constantine's proud race exists no more	S
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But sons of Mahomet the towers he built	T
Though by your anger spared have fallen now	F
And crushed your bloody race A mightier arm	U
Than his who raised or spared yon domes came forth	V
From the hot sable rolling cloud it came	C
And crumbled them to dust The wind the air	W
Seem in strict silence bound but smiling still	X
Appears the face of day assassin like	Y
Smiling though conscious of intended death	Z
But Nature trembles at her own repose	A2
The brute creation dread forebodings shake	B2
While man alone is bold But see where now	F
The labouring ocean in fantastic shapes	C2
And sudden swells her heaving bosom rears	D2
Like the mad Pythia when the Delphian god	E2
Spoke by her fraudful lips But here alas	F2
A real God that world of waters moves	G2
To do his dreadful bidding	H2
Hark he comes	R
The thunder's roar the rush of winds proclaim	C
The Mighty One is near But oh when past	I2
His power and those he spared raised up their heads	J2
Where was the eye could bear upon the waste	K2
To gaze and mark the ruin stretching wide	L2
Oh ye were blest ye victims ye who fell	Q
Deep in the yawning chasm Where are now	F
The sad survivor cries my peaceful home	M2
The sacred mosque I loved the child the wife	N2
I clasped but now the city towering high	O2
Proud in its strength Disperse thou gloomy cloud	P2
And let me gaze on them The cloud's dispersed	Q2
But he beholds no city he can trace	R2
No vestige of his home a putrid lake	B2
Or barren ground replace them and proclaim	C
Devouring earthquake thy resistless power	S2
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England blest country from such woes as these	T2
Thy temperate clime preserves thee lightly felt	U2
If ever by thy comfort breathing shores	V2
The earthquake desolating distant lands	W2
And thou hast cause to lift thy voice most high	O2
In the great choir of nations hymning praise	X2
But ye who wander from your native shores	V2
While haply such calamity draws near	Y2
As sunk Byzantium ye whose eager hearts	Z2
Anticipate a glad return to scenes	A3
Ye shall behold no more for ever swept	B3
From off the earth unconscious heirs of woe	C3
For you I mourn Methinks I see the cheek	D3
Flushed with delight chastized perhaps by fear	Y2
When your own land approaches See the eye	O2
Misty with tears ope wide its eager lid	E3
To catch the well known objects Horrid change	F3
Fear pales that glowing cheek and dries that eye	O2
It is our native shore but where are gone	G3
The fanes the spires erewhile our city's pride	L2
I hear you cry The pilot is deceived	A
And hope deceived us too 'Tis not our land	L
But soon the mournful certainty ye guess	H3
And leap to shore and there ye call in vain	I3
On all ye loved Throughout the silent streets	J3
That yet remain perhaps some meagre form	I
May trembling steal along and tell the tale	K3
While on the ruins some lone maniac sits	L3
And as he points to where the chasm yawned	M3
Boasts of the treasures earth preserves for him	N3
Or while a sudden beam of reason darts	Z2
Screams his discordant anguish and commands	W2
Earth to give back his children	O3
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Angel of woe that from the eternal hand	L
Receivest thy dread commission going forth	V
To flap thy sable pinions o'er the world	P3
And shed unnumbered evils which appear	Y2
To piety's uplifted eye as good	B
Concealed in evil's garb angel of woe	C3
Upon thy awful power I've pondered oft	Q3
In all its dark varieties I've sought	R3
The horrid path where Madness stalks along	P
In fancied majesty or from his cell	Q
Sends the loud shriek or more afflicting laugh	S3
And as I hurried from the o'erwhelming scene	T3
Have shuddering owned thy awful presence there	W
I've seen thee by the death bed sit and bid	E3
The silent corse to speak again and urge	U3
The eyes for ever closed to ope once more	S
And beam as they were wont and I have walked	V3
In slow procession to the opening grave	W3
And seen thee triumph when the earth received	A
The form beloved and the deep bursting groan	J
Bespoke affliction's forced composure o'er	S2
And agony victorious I have gazed	X3
Upon the guilty wretch when doomed to die	O2
Terror has vanquished him and his pale cheek	D3
Has proved the falsehood of his vaunting tongue	Y3
While to his startled fancy in the rear	Y2
Of Death came judgement and the world to come	Z3
Unfolded all its horrors There O there	W
Thee I beheld and fled from and I've heard	A4
How on the sultry suffocating breath	Z
Of livid pestilence thou floating wide	L2
Hast done thy master's bidding Vain were then	M
The ties of nature from the parent's grasp	B4
The child has forced its once sustaining hand	L
And horror struck has from contagion fled	C4
While the fond parent from his dying child	K
Vainly his aid imploring terror winged	D4
Has urged his selfish flight And there thou wert	E4
But when the earthquake's varied horrors come	Z3
All all thy ministers are waiting round	F4
Fear Madness Pestilence Pain Famine Death	Z
And all the AGONIES COMBINED are there	W

Amelia Opie

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