That man may do.”

Miss Baillie’s “Constantine Palæologus.”

I.

The fires grew pale on Rome’s deserted shrines,

In the dim grot the Pythia’s voice had died;

—Shout for the City of the Constantines,

The rising city of the billow-side,

The City of the Cross!—great ocean’s bride,

Crown’d with her birth she sprung! Long ages past,

And still she look’d in glory o’er the tide,