Stands not Bagdad
Near to the site of ancient Babylon
And Nimrod’s impious temple?
OLD MAN.
From the walls
’Tis but a long day’s distance.
THALABA.
And the ruins?
OLD MAN.
A mighty mass remains; enough to tell us
How great our [70]fathers were, how little we.
Men are not what they were; their crimes and follies
Have dwarfed them down from the old hero race
To such poor things as we!
THALABA.
At Babylon
I have heard the Angels expiate their guilt,
Haruth and Maruth.
OLD MAN.