The poets and poetry of America : to the middle of the nineteenth century . VARIOUS AUTHORS EDWARD EVERETT, DIRGE OF ALARIC, THE VISIGOTH, Who stormed and spoiled the city of Rome, and wasafterward buried in the channel of the river Busentius,the water of which had been diverted from its coursethat the body might be interred. When I am dead, no pageant trainShall waste their sorrows at my bier, Nor worthless pomp of homage vainStain it with hypocritic tear; For I will die as I did live, Nor take the boon I cannot give. Ye shall not raise a marble bust Upon the spot where I repose;Ye shal
The poets and poetry of America : to the middle of the nineteenth century . VARIOUS AUTHORS EDWARD EVERETT, DIRGE OF ALARIC, THE VISIGOTH, Who stormed and spoiled the city of Rome, and wasafterward buried in the channel of the river Busentius,the water of which had been diverted from its coursethat the body might be interred. When I am dead, no pageant trainShall waste their sorrows at my bier, Nor worthless pomp of homage vainStain it with hypocritic tear; For I will die as I did live, Nor take the boon I cannot give. Ye shall not raise a marble bust Upon the spot where I repose;Ye shall not fawn before my dust, In hollow circumstance of woes;Nor sculptured clay, with lying breath,Insult the clay that moulds beneath. Ye shall not pile, with servile toil,Your monuments upon my breast, Nor yet within the common soil Lay down the wreck of power to rest ; Where man can boast that he has trod On him that was the scourge of God. But ye the mountain-stream shall turn,And lay its secret channel bare, And hollow, for your sovereigns urn,A resting-place forever
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