LV.

These are four minds, which, like the elements, Might furnish forth creation:--Italy![mv] Time, which hath wronged thee with ten thousand rents Of thine imperial garment, shall deny[mw] And hath denied, to every other sky, Spirits which soar from ruin:--thy Decay Is still impregnate with divinity, Which gilds it with revivifying ray; Such as the great of yore, Canova[433] is to-day.