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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Canto II Antiquity, thou Titan-born That rear'st thee, in stupendous scorn At all succession, from thy bed On prime earth's firm foundations spread, And look'st with dim but settled eye O'er thy deep lap, within whose span Layer upon layer sepulchred lie Whole generations of frail man That steady glare not fierce Simoom, Blasting with his hot pinion blinds, Nor floods of dust thy corse entomb, Heaped o'er thee by the sexton winds Nor temple, tower, nor ponderous town Built on thy grave can keep thee down, But still thou rear'st thee in thy scorn, Antiquity, thou Titan-born, To crush our souls with that dim frown Strong Son of Chaos who didst seem Only a fairer form of him, Moulding his mountainous profounds To fanes and monumental grounds; His rocky coigns, with giant ease, In pyramids and palaces Piling aslope, as we with pain His ruinous rubbish raised in vain Thou that with Tubal old compeer, In living cliffs didst statue man And carve, for toys, leviathan Or mammoth, yet found bedded here His stony limbs, where once he stood Scarce moved a footpace by the Flood Still at thy works in mute amaze, Sorrow and envy and awe we gaze Enlarge our little eyeballs still To grasp in these degenerate days Marvels that shewed a mighty will, Huge power and hundred-handed skill, That seek prostration and not praise Too faint such lofty ears to fill From Ind to Egypt thou art one, Pyramidal Memphis to Tanjore, From Ipsambul to Babylon Reddening the waste suburban o'er; From sand-locked Thebes to old Ellore, Her caverned roof on columns high Pitched, like a Giant brood that bore Headstrong the mountain to the sky: That one same Power, enorm, sublime Thou art, from antique clime to clime, Eternal stumbling-block of Time Whose fragmentary limbs do stay, Stones of offence, ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217518390 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217518397 |
| Weight | 0.21 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.13 In |
| List Price | $12.72 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 56 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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