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Sonnet LXXXIII. On Catania And Syracuse Swallowed Up By Earthquake.

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FROM THE ITALIAN OF FILACAJA.      Here, from laborious Art, proud TOWNS, ye rose!         Here, in an instant, sunk! - nor ought remains         Of all ye were! - on the wide, lonely plains         Not e'en a stone, that might these words disclose,      "Here stood CATANIA;" - or whose surface shows         That this was SYRACUSE: - but louring reigns         A trackless DESOLATION. - Dim Domains!         Pale, mournful Strand! how oft, with anxious throes,      Seek I sad relics, which no spot supplies! -         A SILENCE - a fix'd HORROR sears my soul,         Arrests my foot! - Dread DOOM of human crimes,      What art thou? - Ye o'erwhelmed Cities, rise!         That your terrific skeletons may scowl         Portentous warning to succeeding Times!

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