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POEMS AND SONGS
Falls upon the bygone ages
That have laid them down to rest here; —
Where to him, the Northern searcher,
It would seem, he had been straying
Too long lost in history’s fogland,
Rowing round the deep fjords’ surface; —
Stood where dead men burst the earth-clods
And themselves come forth for witness
In their heavy marble togas;—
Where the goddesses of Delos
In the frescoed halls are dancing,
As two thousand years before now;—
Pantheon and Coliseum
In their spacious fate have sheltered
All the world’s swift evolution ;—
Where a Hermes from that corner
Saw the footsteps firm of Cato,
Pontifex in the procession, —
Saw then Nero as Apollo
Lifted up take sacrifices,
Saw then Gregory, the wrathful,
Riding forth to rule in spirit
Over all the known world’s kingdoms, —
Saw then Cola di Rienzi
Homage pay to freedom’s goddess
’Mid the Roman people’s paeans,—
Saw Pope Leo and his princes
Choose instead of the Lord Jesus
Aristotle dead and Plato; —
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