Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Americas: Vol. XXX. 1876–79.
Copan
By William Leighton(From Change)
O
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
That looks upon their marble solitude;
While each grim figure with time-mouldered lines
Seems striving still to tell its marvellous tale.