Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Americas: Vol. XXX. 1876–79. | | | | Central America: Copan, Guatemala | | Copan | | William Leighton |
| | (From Change)
OR more remote in forests of Copan | |
| Are ancient sites of ruined, stone-built cities, | |
| Where tumbling walls and statues yet well-poised, | |
| Or fallen half buried in the rank, black soil, | |
| Greet with mysterious mockery every eye | 5 |
| That looks upon their marble solitude; | |
| While each grim figure with time-mouldered lines | |
| Seems striving still to tell its marvellous tale. | | | | |
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