_Yet these Remains we now behold, Which tow’ring once in Hills arose; Shall from a new and fairer Mould A new and fairer Earth compose: Which to her Fate shall owe her Bloom, And rise more lovely from her Tomb._ X. _Yet see This beauteous Fabrick end, This second Pride of Fate expire; While gushing from the Clouds descend The burning Storm, the liquid Fire; Where Worlds and Men consuming lie, And in one bright Confusion die._ XI. _Their naked Tops the Hills admire, No longer white with fleecy Dew; And as they moan the spreading Fire, Add to the Flames dissolving too; While Rocks from melting Mountains flow, And roll in Streams thro’ Vales below._ XII. _And now the kindling Orbs on high All Nature’s mournful End proclaim; When thy great WORK, (Alas!) must die, And feed the rich victorious Flame: Give Vigour to the wasting fire, And with the World TOO SOON expire._ XIII. _Once more her Bloom the Earth renews, Smooth’d into Green, eternal Vales; Her Glebe still moist with fragrant Dews, Her Air still rich with balmy Gales: No Change her flow’ry Seasons breed, But Springs retire, and Springs succeed._ XIV. _Oh say, Thou Great, Thou sacred Name, What Scenes Thy thoughtful Breast employ, Capacious as that mighty Frame You raise with Ease, with Ease destroy? Each World shall boast thy Fame; and YOU, Who charm’d the OLD, should grace the NEW._ TO THE KING’s MOST Excellent Majesty. _SIR_, New-found Lands and Countries accrue to the Prince whose Subject makes the first Discovery; and having retriev’d a World that had been lost for some thousands of Years, out of the Memory of Man, and the Records of Time, I thought it my Duty to lay it at your Majesty’s Feet. ’Twill not enlarge your Dominions, ’tis past and gone; nor dare I say it will enlarge your Thoughts; but I hope it may gratify your Princely Curiosity to read the Description of it, and see the Fate that attended it.