Austen Henry Layard Quotes
On All Sides, As Far As The Eye Could Reach, Rose The Grass-covered Heaps Marking The Site Of Ancient Habitations. The Great Tide Of Civilisation Had Long Since Ebbed, Leaving These Scattered Wrecks On The Solitary Shore. Are Those Waters To Flow Again, Bearing Back The Seeds Of Knowledge And Of Wealth That They Have Wafted To The West? We Wanderers Were Seeking What They Had Left Behind, As Children Gather Up The Coloured Shells On The Deserted Sands. At My Feet There Was A Busy Scene, Making More Lonely The Unbroken Solitude Which Reigned In The Vast Plain Around, Where The Only Thing Having Life Or Motion Were The Shadows Of The Lofty Mounds As They Lengthened Before The Declining Sun.
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