THRASEA.

IN these burned streets I wander like a ghost:

Rome is no more: O see, my memoried Rome,

My senatorial city is burned and gone!

The city of Camillus, whose abrupt

And tortuous streets my ancestors have threaded,

Here going about a tower of Servius,

Here an Etruscan temple of carved wood,

Here by some patriot tribune’s gabled home:

All gone, as the free spirit that made it, gone: