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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
PLATAEA: THE SPARTAN MONUMENT, by SIMONIDES OF CEOS Poet's Biography
First Line: Into the dark death cloud they passed, to set
Last Line: Into the splendour from the night beneath.
Alternate Author Name(s): Simonides Of Keos
Subject(s): Monuments; Plataea, Greece; Laspi
First Line: Into the dark death cloud they passed, to set
Last Line: Into the splendour from the night beneath.
Alternate Author Name(s): Simonides Of Keos
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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