MORTALIUM SUPERSTES. Fas daedalae telluris imagines, ipsum tenebris fas Hyperiona marcere sic demum caduci sidereum iubar induemus. vidi sub altis nocte soporibus quo raptus annorum per aequor vidi, quot auras terricolae bibent, cui funus ostendetur orbis, ut nova luxuries Adamo. 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! Yet prophet-like that lone one stood 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, 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 vox gloriantis, Par venit exitus utrique nostrum: te quoque frigora, Sol magne, te fatalis urget terminus et miseranda divis |