Or held, by Solomon’s own invitation,
A torch at the great Temple’s dedication.
I need not ask thee if that hand, when armed,
Has any Roman soldier mauled or knuckled,
For thou wert dead and buried, and embalmed,
Ere Romulus and Remus had been suckled!
Antiquity appears to have begun,
Long after thy primeval race was run.
Thou could’st develop, if that withered tongue
Might tell us, what those sightless orbs have seen,