Upon the moral law. Egyptian Thebes,
Tyre, by the margin of the sounding waves,
Palmyra, central in the desert, fell;
And the Arts died by which they had been raised.[KC]
—Call Archimedes from his buried tomb
Upon the grave[752] of vanished Syracuse,[KD]
And feelingly the Sage shall make report
How insecure, how baseless in itself,
Is the Philosophy whose sway depends
On[753] mere material instruments;—how weak