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Here on the arid ridge	A
Of dead Vesuvius	B
Exterminator terrible	C
That by no other tree or flower is cheered	D
Thou scatterest thy lonely leaves around	E
O fragrant flower	F
With desert wastes content Thy graceful stems	G
I in the solitary paths have found	E
The city that surround	E
That once was mistress of the world	H
And of her fallen power	F
They seemed with silent eloquence to speak	I
Unto the thoughtful wanderer	F
And now again I see thee on this soil	J
Of wretched world abandoned spots the friend	K
Of ruined fortunes the companion still	L
These fields with barren ashes strown	M
And lava hardened into stone	M
Beneath the pilgrim's feet that hollow sound	E
Where by their nests the serpents coiled	N
Lie basking in the sun	M
And where the conies timidly	O
To their familiar burrows run	M
Were cheerful villages and towns	P
With waving fields of golden grain	M
And musical with lowing herds	Q
Were gardens and were palaces	R
That to the leisure of the rich	S
A grateful shelter gave	T
Were famous cities which the mountain fierce	U
Forth darting torrents from his mouth of flame	V
Destroyed with their inhabitants	W
Now all around one ruin lies	X
Where thou dost dwell O gentle flower	F
And as in pity of another's woe	Y
A perfume sweet thou dost exhale	Z
To heaven an offering	A2
And consolation to the desert bring	A2
Here let him come who hath been used	B2
To chant the praises of our mortal state	C2
And see the care	D2
That loving Nature of her children takes	E2
Here may he justly estimate	F2
The power of mortals whom	G2
The cruel nurse when least they fear	H2
With motion light can in a moment crush	I2
In part and afterwards when in the mood	J2
With motion not so light can suddenly	O
And utterly annihilate	C2
Here on these blighted coasts	K2
May he distinctly trace	L2
The princely progress of the human race	L2
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Here look and in a mirror see thyself	T
O proud and foolish age	M2
That turn'st thy back upon the path	N2
That thought revived	O2
So clearly indicates to all	P2
And this thy movement retrograde	Q2
Dost Progress call	P2
Thy foolish prattle all the minds	R2
Whose cruel fate thee for a father gave	T
Besmear with flattery	O
Although among themselves at times	S2
They laugh at thee	O
But I will not to such low arts descend	K
Though envy it would be for me	O
The rest to imitate	C2
And raving wilfully	O
To make my song more pleasing to thy ears	T2
But I will sooner far reveal	U2
As clearly as I can the deep disdain	M
That I for thee within my bosom feel	U2
Although I know oblivion	M
Awaits the man who holds his age in scorn	M
But this misfortune which I share with thee	O
My laughter only moves	V2
Thou dream'st of liberty	O
And yet thou wouldst anew that thought enslave	T
By which alone we are redeemed in part	W2
From barbarism by which alone	M
True progress is obtained	X2
And states are guided to a nobler end	K
And so the truth of our hard lot	Y2
And of the humble place	L2
Which Nature gave us pleased thee not	Y2
And like a coward thou hast turned thy back	Z2
Upon the light which made it evident	A3
Reviling him who does that light pursue	B3
And praising him alone	M
Who in his folly or from motives base	L2
Above the stars exalts the human race	L2
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A man of poor estate and weak of limb	C3
But of a generous truthful soul	D3
Nor calls nor deems himself	T
A Croesus or a Hercules	E3
Nor makes himself ridiculous	B
Before the world with vain pretence	B
Of vigor or of opulence	B
But his infirmities and needs	B
He lets appear and without shame	V
And speaking frankly calls each thing	A2
By its right name	V
I deem not him magnanimous	B
But simply a great fool	F3
Who born to perish reared in suffering	A2
Proclaims his lot a happy one	M
And with offensive pride	G3
His pages fills exalted destinies	B
And joys unknown in heaven much less	B
On earth absurdly promising to those	B
Who by a wave of angry sea	B
Or breath of tainted air	D2
Or shaking of the earth beneath	H3
Are ruined crushed so utterly	B
As scarce to be recalled by memory	B
But truly noble wise is he	B
Who bids his brethren boldly look	I3
Upon our common misery	B
Who frankly tells the naked truth	J3
Acknowledging our frail and wretched state	C2
And all the ills decreed to us by Fate	C2
Who shows himself in suffering brave and strong	K3
Nor adds unto his miseries	B
Fraternal jealousies and strifes	B
The hardest things to bear of all	P2
Reproaching man with his own grief	T
But the true culprit	L3
Who in our birth a mother is	B
A fierce step mother in her will	L
Her he proclaims the enemy	B
And thinking all the human race	B
Against her armed as is the case	B
E'en from the first united and arrayed	Q2
All men esteems confederates	B
And with true love embraces all	P2
Prompt and efficient aid bestowing and	M3
Expecting it in all the pains	B
And perils of the common war	N3
And to resent with arms all injuries	B
Or snares and pit falls for a neighbor lay	O3
Absurd he deems as it would be upon	M
The field surrounded by the enemy	B
The foe forgetting bitter war	N3
With one's own friends to wage	M2
And in the hottest of the fight	P3
With cruel and misguided sword	Q3
One's fellow soldiers put to flight	P3
When truths like these are rendered clear	H2
As once they were unto the multitude	J2
And when that fear which from the first	R3
All mortals in a social band	S3
Against inhuman Nature joined	T3
Anew shall guided be in part	W2
By knowledge true then social intercourse	B
And faith and hope and charity	B
Will a far different foundation have	T
From that which silly fables give	T
By which supported public truth and good	U3
Must still proceed with an unstable foot	V3
As all things that in error have their root	W3
Oft on these hills so desolate	F2
Which by the hardened flood	X3
That seems in waves to rise	B
Are clad in mourning do I sit at night	P3
And o'er the dreary plain behold	Y3
The stars above in purest azure shine	M
And in the ocean mirrored from afar	Z3
And all the world in brilliant sparks arrayed	Q2
Revolving through the vault serene	M
And when my eyes I fasten on those lights	B
Which seem to them a point	A4
And yet are so immense	B
That earth and sea with them compared	B4
Are but a point indeed	C4
To whom not only man	M
But this our globe where man is nothing is	B
Unknown and when I farther gaze upon	M
Those clustered stars at distance infinite	F2
That seem to us like mist to whom	G2
Not only man and earth but all our stars	B
At once so vast in numbers and in bulk	D4
The golden sun himself included are	Z3
Unknown or else appear as they to earth	E4
A point of nebulous light what then	M
Dost thou unto my thought appear	H2
O race of men	M
Remembering thy wretched state below	Y
Of which the soil I tread the token bears	B
And on the other hand	S3
That thou thyself hast deemed	F4
The Lord and end of all the Universe	B
How oft thou hast been pleased	G4
The idle tale to tell	H4
That to this little grain of sand obscure	I4
The name of earth that bears	B
The Authors of that Universe	B
Have at thy call descended oft	J4
And pleasant converse with thy children had	K4
And how these foolish dreams reviving e'en	M
This age its insults heaps upon the wise	B
Although it seems all others to excel	H4
In learning and in arts polite	P3
What can I think of thee	B
Thou wretched race of men	M
What thoughts discordant then my heart assail	Z
In doubt if scorn or pity should prevail	Z
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As a small apple falling from a tree	B
In autumn by the force	B
Of its own ripeness to the ground	E
The pleasant homes of a community	B
Of ants in the soft clod	B
With careful labor built	B
And all their works and all the wealth	L4
Which the industrious citizens	B
Had in the summer providently stored	B
Lays waste destroys and in an instant hides	B
So falling from on high	T
To heaven forth darted from	M4
The mountain's groaning womb	G2
A dark destructive mass	B
Of ashes pumice and of stones	B
With boiling streams of lava mixed	B
Or down the mountain's side	B
Descending furious o'er the grass	B
A fearful flood	B
Of melted metals mixed with burning sand	B
Laid waste destroyed and in short time concealed	B
The cities on yon shore washed by the sea	B
Where now the goats	B
On this side browse and cities new	B3
Upon the other stand whose foot stools are	Z3
The buried ones whose prostrate walls	B
The lofty mountain tramples under foot	B
Nature no more esteems or cares for man	M
Than for the ant and if the race	B
Is not so oft destroyed	B
The reason we may plainly see	B
Because the ants more fruitful are than we	B
Full eighteen hundred years have passed	B
Since by the force of fire laid waste	B
These thriving cities disappeared	B
And now the husbandman	M
His vineyards tending that the arid clod	B
With ashes clogged with difficulty feeds	B
Still raises a suspicious eye	T
Unto that fatal crest	B
That with a fierceness not to be controlled	B
Still stands tremendous threatens still	L
Destruction to himself his children and	B
Their little property	B
And oft upon the roof	T
Of his small cottage the poor man	M
All night lies sleepless often springing up	N4
The course to watch of the dread stream of fire	F
That from the inexhausted womb doth pour	N3
Along the sandy ridge	A
Its lurid light reflected in the bay	O3
From Mergellina unto Capri's shore	N3
And if he sees it drawing near	H2
Or in his well	H4
He hears the boiling water gurgle wakes	B
His sons in haste his wife awakes	B
And with such things as they can snatch	O4
Escaping sees from far	Z3
His little nest and the small field	B
His sole resource against sharp hunger's pangs	B
A prey unto the burning flood	B
That crackling comes and with its hardening crust	B
Inexorable covers all	P2
Unto the light of day returns	B
After its long oblivion	M
Pompeii dead an unearthed skeleton	M
Which avarice or piety	B
Hath from its grave unto the air restored	B
And from its forum desolate	B
And through the formal rows	B
Of mutilated colonnades	B
The stranger looks upon the distant severed peaks	B
And on the smoking crest	B
That threatens still the ruins scattered round	B
And in the horror of the secret night	B
Along the empty theatres	B
The broken temples shattered houses where	D2
The bat her young conceals	B
Like flitting torch that smoking sheds	B
A gloom through the deserted halls	B
Of palaces the baleful lava glides	B
That through the shadows distant glares	B
And tinges every object round	B
Thus paying unto man no heed	B
Or to the ages that he calls antique	I
Or to the generations as they pass	B
Nature forever young remains	B
Or at a pace so slow proceeds	B
She stationary seems	B
Empires meanwhile decline and fall	P2
And nations pass away and languages	B
She sees it not or will not see	B
And yet man boasts of immortality	B
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And thou submissive flower	F
That with thy fragrant foliage dost adorn	M
These desolated plains	B
Thou too must fall before the cruel power	F
Of subterranean fire	F
Which to its well known haunts returning will	L
Its fatal border spread	B
O'er thy soft leaves and branches fine	M
And thou wilt bow thy gentle head	B
Without a struggle yielding to thy fate	B
But not with vain and abject cowardice	B
Wilt thy destroyer supplicate	B
Nor wilt erect with senseless haughtiness	B
Look up unto the stars	B
Or o'er the wilderness	B
Where not from choice but Fortune's will	L
Thy birthplace thou and home didst find	B
But wiser far than man	M
And far less weak	I
For thou didst ne'er from Fate or power of thine	M
Immortal life for thy frail children seek	I