Crossword-Solution: SARDINIA 8 letters, 34 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

The dame there pointed out where sometime stood Rome’s stately rival whilom, Carthage proud; XX Great Carthage low in ashes cold doth lie, Her ruins poor the herbs in height scant pass, So cities fall, so perish kingdoms high, Their pride and pomp lies hid in sand and grass: Then why should mortal man repine to die, Whose life, is air; breath, wind; and body, glass? From thence the seas next Bisert’s walls they cleft, And far Sardinia on their right hand left.

Nor lack there men to govern them, when blown By blustering winds -- from islands not remote -- Sardinia or Corsica, of every rate, Pilot and patron, mariner and mate.

And thence they sailed on through the deeps of Sardinia, and past the Ausonian islands, and the capes of the Tyrrhenian shore, till they came to a flowery island, upon a still bright summer’s eve.

Nearly two years passed before it was possible to marry: two years of activity, now in London; now at Birkenhead, fitting out ships, inventing new machinery for new purposes, and dipping into electrical experiment; now in the _Elba_ on his first telegraph cruise between Sardinia and Algiers: a busy and delightful period of bounding ardour, incessant toil, growing hope and fresh interests, with behind and through all, the image of his beloved.

Louis, however, had left a few weeks previously; upon which Edward followed him to Sardinia, and afterwards to Tunis.