Amazing! Arthur Findlay Scott refers to the ancient ruins in exactly the same language, claiming it as an ancient Anglo-Saxon inscription. Talk about COINCIDENCE!! Appropriately enough the original title of your self-reflective prosody is entitled "The Ruin". 'T was ever thus...the ruined walls, the soul-less streets, the broken towers and the unpeopled byways, all are legends in their own minds, as they sleep the world by, glorying only in what is nevermore to be.


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