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SONNET ON A PHOENICIAN TOMB, by                    
First Line: A lonely grave above the rock-rimmed sea
Last Line: Brings but new flowers to the wind-blown grass.
Subject(s): Phoenicia


A lonely grave above the rock-rimmed sea,
Where sea-birds scream, and white sea-flowers spread
Their mantle o'er the long-forgotten dead
Of other days -- dreamers who dauntlessly
Fronted the challenging sea with sails unfurled,
Out where the wild white horses beckoning prance
About the trailing garments of romance,
Beyond the pillared gateway of the world.

And since that early morning of our race
All history has been writ -- in blood and tears;
Its shouting triumphs verberate and pass;
While, in the hush of this enchanted place,
The unremembered current of the years
Brings but new flowers to the wind-blown grass.





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