Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1826-06-09
ram .'s London 4Ye-D Monthly Magazine for Aprii.
THE CITY OF THE DEAD.


lhere Is universal hush,
Hfoke but by marble fouus that ,ush
unteuehd. unquaiTd, in waste awav,
WIN iali monotonous aud d,e.r
save when It's jaw some beast of prey
Dps IN their crystal, or the beak
w VIA bird may their cool wave break.
Nh pattienent, on tower aud town.
- chii hue hovers the ground
op)eet show strangely, while around
- pale and hasy ght CLEANS down,
III nee light like that the sun
. filings 10 eclipse when made obscure
ny intervening moons, and dun
And sad appears the portraitute
u earthly things, "a il this hour
some agency OF Hell has powci.
IN every street is .oiitude-
In every dwelling isdecay-
ttom painted halls the Ia, en- rude
fiaps NJ black wing and covers away.
l:tnygrasssrO'ys tall aud tangled where
Rhe streets with feet were lately bare;
Ana the wolf Prowis iu chambers bright,
Vhere tune yettreads with iiaees light,
-Knu bones lie there he long hath eeaG'd
Marfo,sless, scatter'd wild about
In revei of his hungry ruut,
On iniaid floors and carpets wovc
vi purple grain with gold inyened
:, While aside shines the gilt alcove,
Nntainth'd yet, where la.e ,nen moved
Heysiid in luxury, dauced, or how'd;
AMI even on the damask'd beds,
Where youth and beauty laid their headE
Upon the tables holding still
ooslet and bowl, lies many a skull
In nimic auto, srInning i'll
Near cups Its eyes had lloyd at fiIf
Mhen those BLACK hollOws glanced all rife
-" HiS i'Sh itFtiry OF NE
IN the closeIi chambers cotcLes lie
Where stretches malay an atony
And garments clot.e lis whitening bone
un down that IT expired upon.
And there embroidered coverings hide
Tall feshie.s skeletons be,ox,
Ibat thinly through mans last form .hyyy.
Ind upon brows OF foster d pride
Shiunken and dry, in mockery Irvine
Itradtire ard flower that bcauy's ann
Had placed 10 caPtiyaie charm,
10 locks TINT were lis .ofi eye's shrine
Those locks that shTiI.ci the heck and lin
Nhete once a monarch loved 10 .ip
And shtih,d the glance OF pas ,ou'. mower
On the G. Uwnd idol of the hour -
lis pfac. OF Joy and pleasure proud -
It's graceful bed, lis grave and shroud
Here desoaiiun holds her reign
Ger all from lord TO mental II ain
Wasted, and dumb and dead
Bone would be similar of bone,
<-hc slave trcin his proud lord unknown;
Bet tor the tsppings Inverted
Hanging upOn hun, marking we'll
his state even ia deaths Carnival
And iniaucy'' young limbs sti Inv
Graded, while blanching in d, cav
Amid the ruin dead.
Thsrc death had rava.e,i ell anil .reelv fol
itn Jaws with food his palaces With dead
i t'SHe was hrs minister, aud every door
ne e7i-erus- mark oi visi;alon bore,
Al they who wsich'd the dy,ns all had d,ef
a,u none wei u let To bury iii the tomb
The btniei drssy'd the buriers ON man came
And SofSei It, till no more thewurkw,s rIiri -
re d'ei At Tasting, m the hall, or door
An ho'rse OF state or ho.el ofthe poor
yhere chance had placed him tim. life shrank away
ana 'ef ITS wrecks iToyvud siunt VI tt1Iitv "
Ifsmpng the sca;ier'i bones, Ne, cto,iij Kin,
'Fnnpies his battle iield sheu trinmphinr
when the plague ragged in cities fofacil the infect
"o'se7 were marked on the doO:s with large cro.s