XLV.

For Time hath not rebuilt them, but upreared Barbaric dwellings on their shattered site, Which only make more mourned and more endeared The few last rays of their far-scattered light, And the crashed relics of their vanished might. The Roman saw these tombs in his own age, These sepulchres of cities, which excite[mp] Sad wonder, and his yet surviving page The moral lesson bears, drawn from such pilgrimage.