" While Caesar's chambers and the Augustan halls 

 Grovel on earth in indistinct decay." 



Manfred, Act III. 



Nous retrouvons encore des vestiges des fleurs ant^diluviennes qui animerent les premiers 

 gazons du globe ! 



We still find vestiges of the antediluvian floVvers which gave life to the first meadows on 

 earth. 



