MORTALIUM SUPERSTES.

Fas daedalae telluris imagines, ipsum tenebris fas Hyperiona marcere : sic demum caduci

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The Sun's eye had a sickly glare,

The Earth with age was wan,
The skeletons of nations were

Around that lonely man!
Some had expired in fight,—the brands
Still rusted in their bony hands ;

In plague and famine some !
Earth's cities had no sound nor tread;
And ships were drifting with the dead

To shores where all was dumb !

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Yet prophet-like that lone one stood

With dauntless words and high, That shook the sere leaves from the wood

As if a storm passed by, Saying, We are twins in death, proud Sun, Thy face is cold, thy race is run,

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languebat oris sol male luridus,
tellus anili pallida taedio :
stat gentis humanae superstes

quem populi posuere circum ossa interempti : marte sub hostico hos scabra in albis spicula dexteris testantur occisos, necarat

hos famis, hos mora lenta morbi.

stratis viarum non sonitus pedum,

non murmur ardet praetereuntium : torpente torpentes in oras

remigio vaga fertur alnus. stabat severi prodigus auguri, stabat superbis impavidus minis, frondesque ut autumnalis auster

flavicomo quatit aesculeto vox gloriantis, Par venit exitus utrique nostrum : te quoque frigora, Sol magne, te fatalis urget

terminus et miseranda divis

'Tis Mercy bids thee go: For thou ten thousand thousand years Hast seen the tide of human tears,

sors aegra terrae. sat veteris mali, sat lacrimarum secula seculis

nectens tuebaris : dolorum

ille semel requievit aestus.