Show THE RUINED TEMPLE Gr Grace ct Church San U l' l A T Temple In a a. Sunset et Land 1 saw Rent Kent b by the tho throes of oC Earth the storms And d oer o'er dIT of IT fire It brooded wide Ido with lIs of ot awe awo aweThe Tho The doom that fell tell on Sidon and on Tyre roAnd ro And many an arch and ruinous portal there them Stood 1 stored store with memories of ot a Q per per- time Tho The stark tark stones yielded echoes s of ot a prayer The towers quivered with a n. ghostly chime Faint from the tIme shattered font tont an Infants Infant's cr cry Came forth and soft tho the crumbling pillars shed h d T I I Tho strains of ot martial music blithe and Ii ig The Tho paves rolled dolorous requiems oer o'er tho ho dead But when the moon smote with Ith her ht wands ands of oC white The Tho solemn wreck h whence nce all these voices voice pour poured dI d I lu heard ard Times Time's pinions beat across the tho night And saw MW the tho gleam of ot Deaths Death's annul annul- ing sword Herman Scheffau r. r |