...planned; But from the rock as if by magic grown, Eternal, silent, beautiful, alone! Match me such a marvel save in Eastern clime, A rose-red city half as old as Time. (JW Burgon, "Petra," Newdigate Prize Poem, 1840) The ancient rock-bound city of Petra captured the...

...yet withdrawn : The hues of youth upon a brow of woe, Which men call'd old two thousand years ago ! Match me such marvel, save in Eastern clime, — A rose-red city — ' half as old as Tune ! ' And this is Petra — this the lofty boast Of Edom's once unconquerable coast ! These the...

...OF THE DESERT. " The hue of youth upon a brow of woe, Which men called old two thousand years ago ! Match me such marvel, save in Eastern clime — A rose-red city, — half as old as time 1" BTJEGOX. PABT I. THE JOURNEY. world-famous ruine of Palmyra are naturally a common subject of conversation...

...not yet withdrawn, The hues of youth upon a brow of woe, Which man deemed old a thousand years ago ; Match me such marvel save in Eastern clime, A rose-red city half as old as Time. UURGON. 2S8 SONNET. sooth it seems right awful and sublime To gaze by moonlight on the shattered pile...

...consecrates the plain, but rosy-red, as if the blush of dawn that first beheld them were not yet withdrawn; match me such marvel save in eastern clime — a rose-red city, half as old as Time. j. W. BURGON REVOLUTION T OOK Nature through, 'tis revolution all ; J t all change, no death; day follows...

...OF TUB DESERT. * "The hue of youth upon a brow of woe, Which men calk'd old two thousand years ago! Match me such marvel, save in Eastern clime — A rose-red city, — half as old as Time ! " BURGOX. PART L— THE JOURNEV. THE world-famous ruins of Palmyra are naturally a common subject...

...to the intensely red colour and to the antiquity of these interesting ruins, the Dean exclaims — Match me such marvel, save in eastern clime, A rose-red city half as old as time ! In plain language, Petra is known to have been a flourishing emporium 3,000 years ago, and twice...

...granite " of Petra. The hues of youth upon a brow of woe, Which men call'd old two thousand years ago ! Match me such marvel, save in Eastern clime, — A rose-red city — half as old as Time ! And this is Petra — this the lofty boast Of Edom's once unconquerable coast ! These the gay halls...

...had been to the Church. The couplet containing the line so much admired by Stanley runs as follows : Match me such marvel, save in Eastern clime, — A rose-red city, half as old as time. No wonder that it at once caught the popular ear, and received, as the reviewer reminds us, the last...

...complete an effect both of local colour and of historic interest as Burgon in his famous complet : ' Match me such marvel, save in Eastern clime — A rose-red city half as old as time.' To be parodied is at. once the proof and the penalty of successful authorship ; and when an Oxford...