That Lord himself will say—‘In ancient Time,
Not in our days, were built the Towers Sublime;
We cannot equal Works so grand, so vast;
The Wealth is wanted, and the Power is past,
Gone is the Glory of the far-fam’d Hill;
The Sons arrive not at their Fathers’ Skill,
O’er what vast space the Noble Ruins press,
And Time has done what Time cannot redress.’”
l. 79. for sigh’d read spake.
l. 111. for kingdoms read islands.