...When the ends of the world waxed free, When Rome was sunk in a waste of slaves, And the sun drowned in the sea. When Caesar's sun fell out of the sky And...faces that moved like foam, Like faces in a dream. And men rode out of the eastern lands, Broad river and burning plain ; Trees that are Titan flowers...

...waxed free, When Rome was sunk in a waste of slaves, And the sun drowned in the sea. When Ceesar's sun fell out of the sky And whoso hearkened right...only hear the plunging Of the nations In the night Alfred lived at the time of worst confusion after that fall when the Idea of Europe was almost swept...

...the world waxed free, "When Rome was sunk in a waste of 25 slaves, And the sun drowned in the sea. Caesar's sun fell out of the sky And whoso hearkened...only hear the plunging Of the nations in the night. 30 "When the ends of the earth came march" ing in To torch and cresset gleam, And the roads of the...

...sunk in a waste of slaves, And the sun drowned in the sea. When Caesar's sun fell out of the sky 27 And whoso hearkened right Could only hear the plunging...night. When the ends of the earth came marching in 31 To torch and cresset gleam. And the roads of the world that lead to Rome Were filled with faces...

...blazed up when the island was deserted by Rome in AD 410 and may have lasted through the dark times When whoso hearkened right Could only hear the plunging of the nations in the night, almost until the Saxons began to coin for themselves. Though the individual counterfeiter may have...