Arts & Sciences
Gibbon
From Heroic Idyls (1863)
Arts & Sciences
Gibbon has planted laurels long to bloom
Above the ruins of sepulchral Rome.
He sang no dirge, but mused upon the land
Where Freedom took his solitary stand.
To him Thucydides and Livius bow.
And Superstition veils her wrinkled brow.
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MLA
Landor, Walter Savage. “Gibbon.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/272/.
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Landor, Walter Savage. “Gibbon.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/272/.
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