XV.

Or, did it break with soft and silvery shower

The silence of some marble solitude,

Where Adrian, at the fire fly's glittering hour,

Of rumour'd worlds to come the doubts review'd?

Go mark his tomb!--in that sepulchral mole

Scowls the fell bandit:--from its towering height

Old Tiber's flood reflects the girandole,

Midst bells, and shouts, and rockets' arrowy flight!

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