...ed Through time; and pure as gods of olden days He spurns the wealth of Rome. That here sone god Dwells, witnesses the only grove That buds in Libya-for that which grows Upon the arid dust which Leptis parts From Berenice, knows no leaves; alone Hammon uprears a wood; a fount the cause Which with its waters binds the crumbling soil. Yet shall the Sun when poised upon the height Strike through ...