CXLV.

"While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand:[513] When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall; And when Rome falls--the World." From our own land Thus spake the pilgrims o'er this mighty wall In Saxon times, which we are wont to call Ancient; and these three mortal things are still On their foundations, and unaltered all-- Rome and her Ruin past Redemption's skill-- The World--the same wide den--of thieves, or what ye will.