...she stands,(l) Childless and crownless, in her voiceless woe; An empty urn within her wither'd bands, Whose holy dust was scattered long ago; The Scipios' tomb contains no ashes now ; (2) The very sepulchres lie tenantless Of their beroic dwellers : dost thou flow, Old Tiber! through...

...Italy, the queen of Europe, the conqueress of the world. — The ' lone mother of dead empires,' " The Niobe of nations ! There she stands, Childless and crownless in her voiceless woe !" Time has been, that her senators were princes of the earth ; that pleading nations came to receive...

...and temples, Ye ! Whose agonies are evils of a day — A world is at our feet as fragile as our clay. The Niobe of nations ! there she stands Childless and crownless, in her voiceless wo — * * * * * * The Goth, the Christian, Time, War, Flood, and Fire, Have dealt upon the seven-hilled...

...Italy, the queen of Europe, the conqueress of the world. — The ' lone mother of dead empires,' " The Niobe of nations ! There she stands, Childless and crownless in her voiceless woe !" Time has been, that her senators were princes of the earth ; that pleading nations came to receive...

...transient gleam from the light of other days—a memory of the past— a dream of former triumphs. D2 ' The Niobe of nations ! there she stands, Childless and crownless, in her voiceless woe!' She silently appeals to every heart for sympathy, and awakens a chord of deep and tender feeling...

...as our clay. The Niobe of nations I there she stands, Childless and crownless, in the voiceless woe; An empty urn within her withered hands, Whose holy dust was scattered long ago ; The Sciplo's tomb contains no ashes now ; The very sepulchres lie tenantless Of their heroic dwellers :...

...still—still—still were all these! still as death! CHAPTER IV. ROME. " Woe uuto us, not her; for she sleeps well." " The Niobe of nations'. there she stands, Childless and crownless, in her voiceless woe; An empty urn within her wither'd hands, Whose holy dust was scatter'd long ago. The Scipios' tomb...

...temples, Ye ! Whose agonies are evils of a day — A world is at our feet as fragile as our clay. 1ЛМХ. The Niobe of nations ! there she stands, * Childless and crownless, in her voiceless woe ; An empty urn within her wither'd hands, Whose holy dust was scatter'd long ago ; The Scipios'...

...Lone mother of dread empires, and control In their shut breasts their petty misery." » • » « " The Niobe of Nations ! there she stands, Childless and crownless in her voiceless woe, An empty uni within her withered hands, Whose holy dust was scattered long ago." • * » " Dost...

...giants ; where myriads of the slain have been left to rot and bleach under the torrid sun. CHAPTER II. " The Niobe of nations ! there she stands Childless and crownless, in her voiceless woe." Childe Harold, cant. iv. " Quid salvum est si Roma perit ?" S. Hieron. Ep. xi. ad Ageruchiam....