And will be here for ever and aye.'

"A thousand years passed by and then

I went the self-same road again.

"No vestige of that Town I traced,—

But one poor swain his horn employed,—

His sheep unconscious browsed and grazed,

I asked 'when was that Town destroyed?'

He spoke, nor would his horn lay by,

'One thing may grow and another die,

But I know nothing of Towns—not I.'