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FEOM NAPLES TO POMPEII. 319
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' I did ericas find some luxurian " pretty tl y ts on " banks where the buried grass was ruin green but , they and
were Were excep I grew tional to visit . Pompeii a second time I would strive , to do htt least under cooler
_, so ausp , if ices not , as at the the " poe wi t tching did who hour thus of ni describes g , " a his impressions of
the desolated city . Two thousand r " oll At back a step ward , and we stand years
Like those so long within that awful place Immovable Once did I , linger nor asking there , alon can e it , till be ? day
Closedand at length the calm of twilight carne , S Just o gra wher t , eful e , the yet three so solemn s ! met at the I stood fount , and looked way
And ( 'Twas all near a till noble as in house the , long the , house long ni of P ht ansa )
That followed was s when the shower , ashes g fell When they th , at ht Pompeiiht in vain ,
soug , soug ; Bri It was ht not and to be t bri found hter . on But the now pavement a ray , glanced , g
And g on the wheel-track worn for centuries And on the stepping-stones with from their side water to side , ,
The Were O ' er moon which wont was the to tri rising maidens p so , and , a y t . once Full revealed and clear -urns ,
T Shining he name throug of every hout dweller with an , and unusual his craf lust t ; And lighting up this City of the Dead . "
unear The thed general saved uniformity us the fati pervading of a minu the dwelling te inspe - ction houses of as each yet . gue
We of T wandered ombs , and in o and ther out streets amongst which a great m lorers any along have the probab street ly exp
those named known very , differen as the residences tly to the of builders Sallust thereof Pansa , and and inspec Diomed ted , cellar , of , the latterin
which descending a few to amp the horae long or wine and extensive bo bottle ttles still the remain win s has . I been was left told ,
afterwardsthat in at least one e ; taken at any . If te , , so some it mus liquid t surel is inside y be the tha very t can oldest . cc vintage shaken " known if not . .
courtyards Mosaics are , still companions found in and some I parts icked of the a few pavements scattered of
l fragments ooking old , ; soldier my the s ugges marched tion of our abou p t af et t , alt up us houg shook h the his fierce head
-, and remons or two tra orn ted amental in gruff fountain tones at s struck pilfering me par . ticularly from
w tlie sive hich com layers s p letenes of alt stones oge s in ther w , hich pebbles per t f ect y , , looking have ells , been mee as , t preserved fresh the eye as i . f bu Succes arches t jus - t could
completed by a Ponipeiian house decorator . I fancy , as
Feom Naples To Pompeii. 319
FEOM NAPLES TO POMPEII . 319
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1864, page 319, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071864/page/31/
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