• Where now these mingled ruins lie
      A temple once to Bacchus rose,
    Beneath whose roof, aspiring high,
      Full many a guest forgot his woes.

    No more this dome, by tempests torn,
      Affords a social safe retreat;
    But ravens here, with eye forlorn,
      And clustering bats henceforth will meet

    The Priestess of this ruined shrine,...

  • Where now these mingled ruins lie
      A temple once to Bacchus rose,
    Beneath whose roof, aspiring high,
      Full many a guest forgot his woes.

    No more this dome, by tempests torn,
      Affords a social safe retreat;
    But ravens here, with eye forlorn,
      And clustering bats henceforth will meet.

    The Priestess of this ruined shrine,...