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anankta ton pant n huperbal	A
lonta chronon makar n	B
Pindar Hymn frag	C
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Spirit of the days of yore	D
Thou who in thy haunted cave	E
By the torrent's sounding shore	D
Mark'st the autumnal tempest rave	E
Or where on some ivied wall	A
Twilight mingled moonbeams fall	A
Deep in aisles and cloisters dim	F
Hear'st the grey monks' verpser hymn	F
Or beneath the cypress shade	G
Where forgotten chiefs are laid	G
Pacing slow with solemn tread	H
Breathest the verse that wakes the dead	H
By the ivied convent lone	I
By the Runic warrior's stone	I
By the mountain cataract's roar	D
Spirit thee I seek no more	D
Let me remote from earthly care	J
Thy philosophic vigils share	J
Amid the wrecks of ancient time	K
More sad more solemn more sublime	K
Where half sunk in seas of sand	L
Thedmor's marble wastes expand	L
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These silent wrecks more eloquent than speech	M
Full many a tale of awful note impart	N
Truths more severe than bard or sage can teach	M
This pomp of ruin presses on the heart	N
Sad through the palm the evening breezes sigh	O
No sound of man the solitude pervades	P
Where shattered forms of ancient monarchs lie	O
Mid grass grown halls and falling colonnades	P
Beneath the drifting sand the clustering weed	Q
Rest the proud relics of departed power	R
None may the trophy cinctured tablet read	H
On votive urn or monumental tower	R
Nor tell whose wasted forms the mouldering tombs embower	R
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Enthusiast fancy robed in light	S
Dispels oblivion's deepening night	S
Her charms a solemn train unfold	T
Sublime on evening clouds of gold	T
Of sceptred kings in proud array	R
And laurelled chiefs and sages grey	R
But whose the forms oh fame declare	R
That crowd majestic on the air	R
Pour from thy deathless roll the praise	P
Of kings renowned in elder days	P
I call in vain The welcome strain	U
Of praise to them no more shall sound	V
Their actions bright must sleep in night	S
Till time shall cease his mystic round	V
The glories of their ancient sway	R
The stream of years has swept away	R
Their names that nations heard with fear	R
Shall ring no more on mortal ear	R
Yet still the muse's eye may trace	P
The noblest chief of Thedmor's race	P
Who by Euphrates' startling waves	P
Bade outraged Rome her prostrate might unfold	T
Tore from the brow of Persia's pride	W
The wreath in crimson victory dyed	W
And o'er his flying slaves	P
Tumultuous ruin rolled	T
Throned by his side a lovely form	X
In youthful majesty sublime	K
Like sun beams through the scattering storm	X
Shines through the floating mists of time	K
Even as in other years she shone	I
When here she fixed her desert throne	I
Triumphant in the transient smiles of fate	Y
When Zabdas led her conquering bands	P
O'er Asia's many peopled lands	P
And subject monarchs thronged her palace gate	Y
Ere yet stern war's avenging storm	X
Captivity's dejected form	X
And death in solitude and darkness furled	Y
Closed round the setting star that ruled the eastern world	Y
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Dim shades around her move again	B
From memory blotted by the lapse of years	P
Yet foremost in the sacred train	U
The venerable sage appears	P
Who once these desolate arcades	P
And time worn porticoes among	C
Disclosed to princely youths and high born maids	P
The secret fountains of M onian song	C
And traced the mazy warblings of the lyre	R
With all a critic's art and all a poet's fire	R
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What mystic form uncouth and dread	Y
With withered cheek and hoary head	Y
Swift as the death fire cleaves the sky	O
Swept on sounding pinions by	O
'Twas Time I know the foe of kings	P
His scythe and sand and eagle wings	P
He cast a burning look around	Y
And waved his bony hand and frowned	Y
Far from the spectre's scowl of fire	R
Fancy's feeble forms retire	R
Her air born phantoms melt away	R
Like stars before the rising day	R
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One shadowy tint enwraps the plain	U
No form is near no steps intrude	Y
To break the melancholy reign	U
Of silence and of solitude	Y
Ah little thought the wealthy proud	Y
When rosy pleasure laughed aloud	Y
And music with symphonious swell	A
Attuned to joy her festal shell	A
That here amid their ancient land	Y
The wanderer of the distant days	P
Should mark with sorrow clouded gaze	P
The mighty wilderness of sand	Y
While not a sound should meet his ear	R
Save of the desert gales that sweep	Z
In modulated murmurs deep	Z
The wasted graves above	A2
Of those who once had revelled here	R
In happiness and love	A2
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Short is the space to man assigned	Y
His earthly vale to tread	Y
He wanders erring weak and blind	Y
By adverse passions led	Y
Love that with feeling's tenderest flow	A
To rapture turns divided woe	A
And brightens every smile of fate	Y
That kindred souls participate	Y
Jealousy whose poisonous breath	B2
Blasts affection's opening bud	Y
Wild despair that laughs in death	B2
Stern revenge that bathes in blood	Y
Fear that his form in darkness shrouds	P
And trembles at the whispering air	R
And hope that pictures on the clouds	P
Celestial visions false but fair	R
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From the earliest twilight ray	R
That marked creation's natal day	R
Till yesterday's declining fire	R
Thus still have rolled perplexed by strife	C2
he many mingling wheels of life	C2
And still shall roll till time's last beams expire	R
And thus in every age in every clime	X
While years swift circling fly	O
The varying deeds that mark the present time	X
Will be but shadows of the days gone by	O
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Swift as the meteor's midnight course	P
Swift as the cataract's headlong force	P
Swift as the clouds whose changeful forms	P
Hang on the rear of flying storms	P
So swift is Time's colossal stride	Y
Above the wrecks of human pride	Y
These temples awful in decay	R
Whose ancient splendor half endures	P
These arches dim in parting day	R
These dust defiled entablatures	P
These shafts whose prostrate pride around	Y
The desert weed entwines its wreath	D2
These capitals that strew the ground	Y
Their shattered colonnades beneath	D2
These pillars white in lengthening files	P
Grey tombs and broken peristyles	P
May yet through many an age retain	U
The pomp of Thedmor's wasted reign	U
But Time still shakes with giant tread	Y
The marble city of the dead	Y
That crushed at last a shapeless heap	Z
Beneath the drifted sands shall sleep	Z
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The flower that drinks the morning dew	Y
Far on the evening gale shall fly	O
The bark that glides o'er ocean blue	Y
Dashed on the distant rocks shall lie	O
The tower that frowns in martial pride	Y
Shall by the lightning brand be riven	E2
The arch that spans the summer tide	Y
Shall down the wintry floods be driven	E2
The tomb that guards the great one's name	X
Shall yield to time its sacred trust	Y
The laurel of imperial fame	X
Shall wither in unwatered dust	Y
His mantle dark oblivion flings	P
Around the monuments of kings	P
Who once to conquest shouting myriads bore	R
Fame's trumpet blast and victory's clarion shrill	A
Pass like an echo of the hill	A
That breathes one wild response and then is heard no more	R
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But ne'er shall earthly time throw down	F2
The immortal pile that virtue rears	P
Her golden throne and starry crown	F2
Decay not with revolving years	P
For He whose solemn voice controlled	Y
Necessity's mysterious sway	R
And yon vast orbs from chaos rolled	Y
Along the elliptic paths of day	R
Has fixed her empire vast and high	O
Where primogenial harmony	G2
Unites in ever cloudless skies	P
Affection's death divided ties	P
Where wisdom with unwearying gaze	P
The universal scheme surveys	P
And truth in central light enshrined	Y
Leads to its source sublime the indissoluble mind	Y