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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ACROPOLIS, by CATHERINE PATRICK
First Line: Ancient pile, which sends from the past a
Last Line: Vanish forever.
Subject(s): Acropolis Of Athens; Greece; Greeks
First Line: Ancient pile, which sends from the past a
Last Line: Vanish forever.
Subject(s): Acropolis Of Athens; Greece; Greeks
Ancient pile, which sends from the past a creeping
Shadow down to fields in the sunlight sleeping,
Bearing stores of olive and grape for reaping;
While time is leaping.
Temple, where Greek wealth was once expended,
Where the works of art and worship blended,
Turned to priceless fragments feebly mended;
Time has so tended.
Out of this the heritage, ours forever,
The bond time has not been allowed to sever;
Thread of culture, which though it change, can never
Vanish forever.
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