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CENOTAPH by GLAUCUS OF NICOPOLIS

First Line: NO HEAP OF DUST AND PETTY STONES
Last Line: ONLY THE SEA-MEWS KNOW.
Subject(s): MONUMENTS;

NO heap of dust and petty stones
Marks Erasippus' grave;
His tomb spreads wide before thine eye,
The illimitable wave.
Lost with his ship, somewhere his bones
Are mouldering below,
Whelmed in the deep; but where they lie
Only the sea-mews know.



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