As soon as thunder, 'midst the general noise
Of Human Nature's agonizing voice!
LX.
The town was entered. Oh Eternity!—
"God made the country, and man made the town,"
So Cowper says[440]—and I begin to be
Of his opinion, when I see cast down
Rome—Babylon-Tyre-Carthage—Nineveh—
All walls men know, and many never known;
And pondering on the present and the past,