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Show i V X'; oye-vTriuVriphant. ' Helen's, -iUps "'are drifting dust; Illotvis -consumed with rust; AH; Jhe :'gllepn5j o Greece. Drink the ocean's dreamless peace; Lost Was Solomon's purple show Restless, . centuries ago; Empires died and left no strain Babylon, Barbary, and Spain Only one thing, undefaced, Lasts! though' all the worlds lie waste, .Ami the heavens-rare ' overturned, .Dear, how long ago we learned'. "There's a sight that blinds the sun, Sound that lives when sounds are done, Music that rebukes the birds Language lovelier than words, Hue and scent that shame the rose, AVine no earthly vineyard knows, Ocean more divinely free Than Pacific's drainless sea, ' Silence stiller than the shore '.Swept by Charon's stealthy oar Ye who live have learn't it true, .Dear, how long ago we knew! Frederick Lawrence Knowles in Harper's Har-per's Magazine. |