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The spacious cities hummed with toil: / The monarch reared his towers to the skies; / Men delved the fruitful soil / And studied to be wise; / Along the highway's rocky coil / The mailed legions rang; / Smiling unheeded 'mid the moil, / The Poet sang.
The glittering cities long are heaps: / The starry towers lie level with the plain; / The desert serpent sleeps / Where soared the marble fane; / The stealthy, bead-eyed lizard creeps / Where gleamed the tyrant's throne; / The grandeur dark oblivion steeps: / The song sings on.