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-

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

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

THIS fine view of Rome, taken from above the Porta di Santo Spirito, commands the castle of St. Angelo, anciently the Mole of Hadrian, the Bridge of St. Angelo, and the left bank of the Tiber, as it washes the modern city in its course, from the Ripetta to the bridge. The most distant part of the city in the view is bounded by the Villa Medici, at present the French Academy, and on its left by the Trinita de Monte; beyond these is the range of mountains which bound the Campagna of Rome.

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Abbotsfeed 3 Sept.

FROM ዝኒ OHIGINAL PICTURE IN THE POSSESSION OF ME MIRKAY.

PAINTED 1824.

1824

Ferden, Publishal 1833 by J. Murray & Sold by Tilt 86, Flat Stret

Ingrid Pinder