Poems on Several Occasions With Anne Boleyn to King Henry VIII. An Epistle. By Mrs. Elizabeth Tollet. The Second Edition |
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April 18, 1747.
Proud Monuments of Art! renown'd of oldRais'd to the Clouds above, and roof'd with Gold,
Now vanish'd all! as destin'd to expire
By hostile Rage, or Ammon's wanton Fire:
Yet happy you! for each enjoy'd its Date;
And shar'd at last a memorable Fate.
The short-liv'd Pile which Vanity cou'd raise
Is but coeval with the Master's Days,
Turn'd by the Plow, what cou'd a Foe do more!
Where shall we find the tesselated Floor?
While some industrious Swain, whose painful Hand
With rising Harvest better decks the Land,
To the bewilder'd Traveller shall call
Here C--- was; or here was ---.
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