Note 483 — CANTO THE FOURTH[375]
Reading edition
{407} [Compare Rogers's Italy: "Rome" (Poems, 1852), ii. 169—
"Or climb the Palatine, Long while the seat of Rome, hereafter found Less than enough (so monstrous was the brood Engendered there, so Titan-like) to lodge One in his madness; and inscribe my name— My name and date, on some broad aloe-leaf That shoots and spreads within those very walls Where Virgil read aloud his tale divine, When his voice faltered and a mother wept Tears of delight!"[*]
And compare Shelley's Poetical Works, 1895, iii. 276—
"Rome has fallen; ye see it lying Heaped in undistinguished ruin: Nature is alone undying."]
[*] [At the words Tu Marcellus eris, etc. (vide Tib. Cl. Donatus, Life of Virgil (Virg., Opera), Leeuwarden, 1627, vol. i.).]