"All is vanity, saith the Preacher"

When coldness wraps this suffering clay

Vision of Balshazzar

Were my bosom as false as thou deemst it to be

Herod's lament for Mariamne

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On the day of the destruction of Jerusalem by Titus

By the rivers of Babylon we sat down and wept

The destruction of Semnacherib

From Job

"The Emperor Nepos was acknowledged by the

"Senate, by the Italians, and by the Provincials of "Gaul; his moral virtues, and military talents, were loudly celebrated; and those who derived any pri"vate benefit from his government, announced in prophetic strains the restoration of public felicity.

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By this shameful abdication, he protracted his life

a few years, in a very ambiguous state, between

an Emperor and an Exile, till

Gibbon's Decline and Fall, vol. 6, p. 220.