• How cold are thy baths, Apollo!
      Cried the African monarch, the splendid,
    As down to his death in the hollow
      Dark dungeons of Rome he descended,
      Uncrowned, unthroned, unattended;
    How cold are thy baths, Apollo!

    How cold are thy baths, Apollo!
      Cried the Poet, unknown, unbefriended,
    As the vision, that lured him to follow,...