| Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). An American Anthology, 1787–1900. 1900. |
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| 1062. Survival |
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| THE KNELL that dooms the voiceless and obscure | |
| Stills Memnon’s music with its ghostly chime; | |
| Strength is as weakness in the clasp of Time, | |
| And for the things that were there is no cure. | |
| The vineyard with its fair investiture, | 5 |
| The mountain summit with its hoary rime, | |
| The throne of Cæsar, Cheops’ tomb sublime, | |
| Alike decay, and only dreams endure. | |
| Dreams for Assyria her worship won, | |
| And India is hallowed by her dreams; | 10 |
| The Sphinx with deathless visage views the race | |
| That like the lotus of a summer seems; | |
| And, rudderless, immortally sails on | |
| The wingëd Victory of Samothrace. | |
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