It is worthy of remembrance that Sir Walter’s own “Macduff’s Cross,” and Southey’s lively and eccentric nursery rhymes on the “Cataract of Lodoar,” first made their appearance in the collection referred to.]
[204] As originally written, the following additional stanzas (afterwards omitted) concluded this poem:—
Fallen is the golden city! In the dust,
Spoil’d of her crown, dismantled of her state,
She that hath made the strength of towers her trust
Weeps by her dead, supremely desolate!
She that beheld the nations at her gate,
Thronging in homage, shall be call’d no more
Lady of kingdoms! Who shall mourn her fate?
Her guilt is full, her march of triumph o’er—