Genius strove in the bitterness of despair, while this exquisite land, where History adds to the charms of Nature and gilds anew the golden fields, sank at last to become, in the audacious phrase of Napoleon, simply a geographical name.
Sumner laments the decline of a once-great land, reduced to mere geographical significance.
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