Note pr — THE SIEGE OF CORINTH
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Monuments that the coming age Leaves to the spoil of the season's rage— Till Ruin makes the relics scarce, Then Learning acts her solemn farce, And, roaming through the marble waste, Prates of beauty, art, and taste. XIX. That Temple was more in the midst of the plain— or, What of that shrine did yet remain Lay to his left more in midst of the plain.—[MS. G.]