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440 Colossal copyist of deformity—

Whose travelled phantasy from the far Nile's

Enormous model, doomed the artist's toils

To build for Giants, and for his vain earth,

His shrunken ashes, raise this Dome: How smiles

The gazer's eye with philosophic mirth,

To view the huge design which sprung from such a birth!

CLIII.

But lo! the Dome—the vast and wondrous Dome,

To which Diana's marvel was a cell—