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 Outstretch'd unwieldy, his island length appears Above the foamy flood. Globose and huge, Gray-mouldering temples swell, and wide o'ercast The solitary landscape, hills and woods, And boundless wilds; while the vine-mantled brows The pendant goats unveil, regardless they Of hourly peril, though the clefted domes Tremble to every wind. The pilgrim oft, At dead of night, mid his orisons hears Aghast, the voice of time-disparting towers, While murmurs sooth each awful interval Of ever-falling waters ; shrouded Nile, Eridanus, and Tiber with his twins. And palmy Euphrates; who with dropping locks Hang o'er their urns, and mournfully among The plaintive-echoing ruins pour their streams. So Time ordains, who rolls the things of pride From dust again to dust. Behold that heap

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