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LAUSANNE.

VIGNETTE.

THIS beautiful vignette, by Mr. Stanfield, is taken from near Lausanne, on the road to Berne, looking back upon the town and the lake and the mountains which bound its eastern shore.

ROME.

Drawn by C. Stanfield, A.R.A.

"Turn to the Mole which Hadrian reared on high,
Imperial mimic of old Egypt's piles,
Colossal copyist of deformity,

Whose travelled phantasy from the far Nile's
Enormous model, doomed the artist's toils

To build for giants, and for his vain earth,

His shrunken ashes, raise this dome: How smiles

The gazer's eye with philosophic mirth,

To view the huge design which sprung from such a birth!

Oh Rome! my country! city of the soul!
The orphans of the heart must turn to thee,

Lone mother of dead empires! and control

In their shut breasts their petty misery.

What are our woes and sufferance? Come and see
The cypress, hear the owl, and plod your way
O'er steps of broken thrones and temples, Ye!
Whose agonies are evils of a day —

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A world is at our feet as fragile as our clay."

Childe Harold, canto iv. st. 152 and 78.

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