出日

遠處白雪皚皚的維蘇威火山，寧靜而明亮。看到毀滅者與被毀滅者，在陽光底下構成這樣一幅安詳的圖畫，有一種異樣的感傷...《龐貝的末日》(Pompeii The Last Day)

Stand at the bottom of the great market-place of Pompeii, and look up the silent streets, through the ruined temples of Jupiter and Isis, over the broken houses with their inmost sanctuaries open to the day, away to Mount Vesuvius, bright and snowy in the peaceful distance; and lose all count of time, and heed of other things, in the strange and melancholy sensation of seeing the Destroyed and the Destroyer making this quiet picture in the sun.