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See the wild Waste of all-devouring years! How Rome her own sad Sepulchre appears, With nodding arches, broken temples spread! The very Tombs now vanish'd like their dead!

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
Literary Historian
Poet
Translator
the City
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Alexander I Pope
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I Pope
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Sepulchre
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Nodding
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Waste
Arches
Broken
Vanish
Dead
Tombs
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Rome
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Temples

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