The Ravaged Villa

Timoleon

In shards the sylvan vases lie,Their links of dance undone;And brambles wither by the brim,Choked Fountain of the Sun!The spider in the laurel spins,The weed exiles the flower,And, flung to kiln, Apollo’s bustMakes lime for Mammon’s tower.

l. 7: Apollo. In Greek mythology, the god of, among other things, light and the sun, music, poetry and the arts.

l. 8: Mammon. In Christian imagery, a figure representing wealth or greed, from the Hebrew word for “money”.