<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=115341" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>To Peter Cooper</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Pyramids of Egypt, even to-day<br> The wonder of the world, stupendous stand<br> In their material greatness, and defy<br> Alike relentless Time and Libyan sand.<br> But what great thought through those grim structures smiles?<br> What Aspiration reared those wondrous piles?<br> None,---save that kings, forgotten long ago,<br> Might leave their worthless dust to waste below.<br> This Shrine thou 'st reared to Science and to Art<br> A nobler Thought than Egypt dreamed contains,<br> And every stone speaks of a regal heart<br> Benignant as the Nile to desert plains,<br> When all the arid waste it overflows,<br> And the parched shores grow green, and blossom as the rose.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Anne+Lynch+Botta">Anne Lynch Botta</a> from <i>Poems</i><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=115341" data-title="To Peter Cooper de Anne Lynch Botta" data-description="The Pyramids of Egypt, even to-day/ The wonder of the world, stupendous stand/ In their material greatness, and defy/ Alike relentless Time and Libyan sand./ But what great thought through those grim structures smiles?/ What Aspiration reared..."></div> </div> </div>

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