SILBURY HILL[23].
O thou, to whom in the olden time was raisedYon ample Mound, not fashion’d to displayAn artful structure, but with better skillPiled massive, to endure through many an age,How simple, how majestic is thy tomb!When temples and when palaces shall fall,And mighty cities moulder into dust,When to their deep foundations Time shall shakeThe strong-based pyramids, shall thine remainAmid the general ruin unsubdued,Uninjured as the everlasting hills,And mock the feeble power of storms and Time.
O thou, to whom in the olden time was raisedYon ample Mound, not fashion’d to displayAn artful structure, but with better skillPiled massive, to endure through many an age,How simple, how majestic is thy tomb!When temples and when palaces shall fall,And mighty cities moulder into dust,When to their deep foundations Time shall shakeThe strong-based pyramids, shall thine remainAmid the general ruin unsubdued,Uninjured as the everlasting hills,And mock the feeble power of storms and Time.
O thou, to whom in the olden time was raisedYon ample Mound, not fashion’d to displayAn artful structure, but with better skillPiled massive, to endure through many an age,How simple, how majestic is thy tomb!When temples and when palaces shall fall,And mighty cities moulder into dust,When to their deep foundations Time shall shakeThe strong-based pyramids, shall thine remainAmid the general ruin unsubdued,Uninjured as the everlasting hills,And mock the feeble power of storms and Time.
O thou, to whom in the olden time was raised
Yon ample Mound, not fashion’d to display
An artful structure, but with better skill
Piled massive, to endure through many an age,
How simple, how majestic is thy tomb!
When temples and when palaces shall fall,
And mighty cities moulder into dust,
When to their deep foundations Time shall shake
The strong-based pyramids, shall thine remain
Amid the general ruin unsubdued,
Uninjured as the everlasting hills,
And mock the feeble power of storms and Time.
[23]Silbury Hill is a Barrow of the largest size. It stands close by the road from London to Bath: 80 miles west from Hyde-Park Corner.
[23]Silbury Hill is a Barrow of the largest size. It stands close by the road from London to Bath: 80 miles west from Hyde-Park Corner.
[23]Silbury Hill is a Barrow of the largest size. It stands close by the road from London to Bath: 80 miles west from Hyde-Park Corner.