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Outstretch'd unwieldy, his island length appears
Above the foamy flood. Globose and huge,
Gray-mouldering temples swell, and wide o'ercast
The solitary landscape, hills and woods,
And boundless wilds; while the vine-mantled brows
The pendant goats unveil, regardless they21
Of hourly peril, though the clefted domes
Tremble to every wind. The pilgrim oft,
At dead of night, mid his orisons hears
Aghast, the voice of time-disparting towers,
While murmurs sooth each awful interval
Of ever-falling waters ; shrouded Nile,
Eridanus, and Tiber with his twins.
And palmy Euphrates; who with dropping locks
Hang o'er their urns, and mournfully among30
The plaintive-echoing ruins pour their streams.
.........So Time ordains, who rolls the things of pride
From dust again to dust. Behold that heap