ART AND NATURE. THE COLISEUM. LORD BYRON. I Do remember me that in my youth While Cæsar's chambers and the Augustan halls And thou didst shine, thou rolling moon, upon THE COLISEUM. HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW. I CROSSED the Forum to the foot of the Palatine, and, ascending the Via Sacra, passed beneath the Arch of Titus. From this point, I saw below me the gigantic outline of the Coliseum, like a cloud resting upon the earth. As I descended the hillside, it grew more broad and high, - more definite in its form, and yet more grand in its dimensions, -till, from the vale in which it stands encompassed by three of the Seven Hills of Rome, — the Palatine, the Coelian, and the Esquiline, the majestic ruin in all its solitary grandeur "swelled vast to heaven." A single sentinel was pacing to and fro beneath the |