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Show THEOCRITUS ON AGRADINA. The spacious cities hummed with .toil; The monarch reared his towers to the skies; Men. delved the fruitful soil And studied to be wise. Along the highway's rocky coil Tho mailed legion rang; Smiling unheeded mid the moil The Poet sang. The glittering cities- long are heaps; The starry towers lie level with the plain; The desert serpent sleeps Where soared the marble fane The stealthy, bead-eyed lizard creeps Where gleamed the Tyrant's throne; That grandeur dark Oblivion steeps, The song-sings on. Thomas Nelson Page in The Atlantic Monthly. |