Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Italy: Vols. XI–XIII. 1876–79. | | | | Veii | | Veii | | John Edmund Reade (1800–1870) |
| | (From Italy)
I LEANED against a gray and mouldering wall, | |
| Last wreck of Troy-like Veii: the bird | |
| Nestled amid its flower-crowned coronal; | |
| Inward tradition’s cloudy voice I heard: | |
| I thought of when the twin-born cities stirred | 5 |
| Contending in time’s womb for earliest birth, | |
| While fate had stamped the irrevocable word: | |
| Death-doomed the one, the other ruling earth, | |
| To prove the moral drawn from fame and fortune’s worth. | | | | |
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