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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
FRAGMENTS OF SACRED DREAMS: 1, by ROYALL TYLER Poet's Biography
First Line: Where the bright sun illumines the eastern skies
Last Line: Each stops and sighs and casts the pious stones.
Alternate Author Name(s): Old Simon; S.
Subject(s): Darius I, King Of Persia
First Line: Where the bright sun illumines the eastern skies
Last Line: Each stops and sighs and casts the pious stones.
Alternate Author Name(s): Old Simon; S.
Subject(s): Darius I, King Of Persia
WHERE the bright sun illumines the Eastern skies
And wild Arabia's Rocky regions rise
There simple Nature holds her ancient Reign
Rules the Wild Hoard and decks the uncultur'd plain.
No science there, no polished Arts there bred
To bless the living or to Grace the Dead --
No Rich festoons adorn the Regal Room
No sculptur'd Marble decks the Shepherd tomb
But when the Arab's Wandering life is done
To the first field the unhonoured Corpse is borne
Beneath the Clod the Kindred Clod remains
The Parent Earth receives its Child again.
Not undistinguished here the Arab lies
What tho no sculptur'd monument arise
Yet Pious Customs bid the Kindred Race
With heaps of stone denote the hallowed place.
Here as the travellers pass as [?]
Each stops and sighs and casts the Pious Stones.
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