XV.

Thou Timour! in his captive's cage[257] [it]

What thoughts will there be thine,

While brooding in thy prisoned rage?

But one—"The world was mine!"

Unless, like he of Babylon,[258]

All sense is with thy sceptre gone,[259]

Life will not long confine

That spirit poured so widely forth—

So long obeyed—so little worth!

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