Ballads : patriotic & romantic / by Clinton Scollard [electronic text]
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Ballads : patriotic & romantic / by Clinton Scollard [electronic text]
Author
Scollard, Clinton, 1860-1932
Publication
New York, N.Y.: Laurence J. Gomme
1916
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descriptionPage 92
AT SAMARIA
WE climbed the hill wherefrom Samaria's crown In marble majesty once looked awayToward Hermon, white beneath the Syrian day;And lo, no vestige of the old renown,Save a long colonnade, bescarred and brown,Remained to tell of Herod's regal sway, —The gold, the gauds, the imperial display,He heaped on Judah's erewhile princely town.
Ruin was riotous; decay was king;An olive root engripped the topmost stoneAs though it clutched and crushed the thing called fame;Seemed as a fragile wind-flower petal, blownInto the void, the past's vain glorying,And Herod but the shadow of a name!
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