And still allows some stirring down within.
They seemed their own most perfect monument.
A million years. Great mammoths overthrown
And changeless lands of ice. And at Pompeii
To do the shapely thing they had not done.
Save in the tapestries of afterthought.
More time, more time. Barrages of applause
Come muffled from a buried radio.
The New-year bells are wrangling with the snow.
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