Bow’d many a crest, and shatter’d many a throne,

Mingling the urn, the trophy, and the bust,

With what they hide—their shrined and treasured dust.

Men traverse Alps and oceans, to behold

Earth’s glorious works fast mingling with her mould;

But still these nameless chronicles of death,

Midst the deep silence of the unpeopled heath,

Stand in primeval artlessness, and wear

The same sepulchral mien, and almost share

Th’ eternity of nature, with the forms