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PLATAEA: THE SPARTAN MONUMENT by SIMONIDES OF CEOS

First Line: INTO THE DARK DEATH CLOUD THEY PASSED, TO SET
Last Line: INTO THE SPLENDOUR FROM THE NIGHT BENEATH.
Subject(s): MONUMENTS; PLATAEA, GREECE; LASPI;
INTO the dark death cloud they passed, to set
Fame on their own dear land for fadeless wreath,
And dying died not. Valour lifts them yet
Into the splendour from the night beneath.



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