Wanderings in Corsica: Its History and Its Heroes. Vol. 1 of 2

by Ferdinand Gregorovius

For he will break the silence of the laws.

Like Phosphor when he scares the flying stars,

Like Hesper rising, when the stars return;

Or as, when rosy night-dissolving dawn

Leads in the day, the bright sun looks abroad,

And bids the barriers of the darkness yield

Before the beaming chariot of the morn,—

So Cæsar shines, and thus shall Rome behold

Her Nero; mild the lustre of his face,