Page:Landon in Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book 1841.pdf/9

Rh

This fountain supplied the great Aqueduct of Carthage; and the Temple, now in ruins, was erected to the tutelar deity of the Spring. The country is singularly lovely, filled with gardens, brooks, giving motion to numerous mills, and white marabets, whose domes show to great advantage amid the dense green foliage.

the vacant temple Little now remains, Lowly are the statues, Lowly are the fanes, Filled with worshippers no more. Heavily the creeper Traces its green line Round the fallen altar, Now no more divine—

Still the fragrant myrtle, And the olive, stand; Still the kingly palm-tree Clothes the summer land. Cool above the gushing rills Still there flows the fountain From the silent cave, Though no more in marble Is the silver wave