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Behold each mighty shade reveal'd to sight,The Bactfian, Samian sage, and all who taughtthe right!

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There, thou! — -whose love and life togetherfled,

Have left me here to love and live in vain —*Twin’d with my heart, and can I deem thee dead,WhtMi Busy Memory flashes on my brain?Well — l will dream that we may meet again,And woo the vision to my vacant breast:

If aught of young Remembrance then remain.Be as it may Futurity’s behest,

For me'tw ere bliss enough to know thy spiritblost!

Here let me sit upon this massy stone,

The marble column’s yet unshaken base;Ilerc, son of Saturn! was lliy fav'rite throne:^Mightiest of many such! Hence let me traceThe latent grandeur of thy dwelling place.

It may not lie: nor ev n can Fancy's eyeRestore what Time hath labour'd to deface.Yet these proud pillars claim no passing sigh,Unmov’d the Moslem sits, the light Greek caroU

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