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AND of departed fame! whose classic plains, Have proudly echoed to immortal strains; Whose hallow'd soil hath given the great and brave, Day-stars of life, a birth-place and a grave; Home of the Arts! where glory's faded smile, Sheds ling'ring light o'er many a mould'ring pile; Proud wreck of vanish'd power, of splendor fled, Majestic temple of the mighty dead! Whose grandeur, yet contending with decay, Gleams thro' the twilight of thy glorious day;