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Identifier: italyfromalpstom00stie (find matches)
Title: Italy from the Alps to Mount Etna
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Stieler, Karl, 1842-1885 Cavagna Sangiuliani di Gualdana, Antonio, conte, 1843-1913, former owner. IU-R Paulus, Eduard, 1837-1907 Kaden, Woldemar, 1838-1907 Trollope, Frances Eleanor, d. 1913 Trollope, Thomas Adolphus, 1810-1892
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Publisher: London : Chapman and Hall
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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V AMONG THE RUINS. 249 on his horse, and two great lions, are keeping watch. Tall pillars stand like funeraltorches around the bier, but the tapers are burnt out, and the noblest candelabra over-
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SCENE IN THE RUINS OF THE TEMPLE OF VESPASIAN. thrown. The marble cerements have been torn away, and the corpse lies all uncoveredin its mouldering coffin. But at midnight life returns into its heart. The dead one stirsnot, but she hears the great bell of St. Peters sound in the silence. The Apostle isenthroned upon the Vatican hill, and his handmaidens, the Christian churches, decked K K 250 ITALY. with modern splendour, press around the graves of ancient Rome, whose temples areforlorn and dedicated to decay. The priests sing hymns to Mary in the choir, andchattering ciceroni come at every moment, telling the children of a northern clime oldlegends of Roman beauty, and prating of Roman art. Barbarians have seized on herheritage, broken open the casket, and scattered gold and marbles, beauty and wealth,abroad throughout the world, or placed them as remembrances of the great Mother in coldmuseums. Alas, poor Rome ! Another has won the sceptre,And thou art Queen no longer,And thine eye

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