Which through Albion winds for ever Many a sacred Poet's grave, What though thou with all thy dead As the ghost of Homer clings As the love from Petrarch's urn, A quenchless lamp by which the heart so thou art, Mighty spirit so shall be The City that did refuge thee. Lo, the sun floats up the sky Seems to level plain and height; 185 190 195 200 205 210 215 Padua, thou within whose walls Till Death cried, "I win, I win! Her to be made Vice-Emperor, And the eastern Alpine snow, Under the mighty Austrian. And since that time, aye, long before, 250 |