<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=118676" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Tomb in Tuscany</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">In Montepulciano fair,—<br>Long famous for that vintage rare,<br>Prized by the giver of the vine<br>Above all wine—<br>There dwelt a man whose years had taught him<br>To seek, beyond what wealth had brought him,<br>Something to give his transient name<br>A lasting fame.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">"For lordly palaces," he said,<br>"Shall crumble; ay, and bastions dread,<br>And temples grave and gardens gay<br>Become as they;<br>Each vaunted image of my power<br>Shall perish like a wayside flower,<br>And like the hawk my hand hath fed<br>Lie waste and dead.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">"Wherefore, ere yet my days be spent,<br>I will uprear a monument<br>That 'gainst the envious floods of Time<br>Shall stand sublime;<br>My treasures vast shall serve and cherish</div><div style="margin:10px 0">An art too heavenly to perish:<br>A beauty, born of passion pure,<br>That shall endure!"</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So spoke he; and now lies asleep,<br>While near him forms angelic keep<br>Unwearied watch, and from decay<br>Guard him alway:<br>Rare, sculptured forms that blend his story<br>With Donatello's deathless glory,<br>And make mankind his debtors be<br>Eternally.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For lordly castles, as he said,<br>Have crumbled; ay, and bastions dread,<br>And temples grave and gardens gay<br>Become as they.<br>Each vaunted image of his power<br>Has perished like a wayside flower,<br>But living in the art he fed,<br>He is not dead!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Florence+Earle+Coates">Florence Earle Coates</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=118676" data-title="A Tomb in Tuscany de Florence Earle Coates" data-description="In Montepulciano fair,—/Long famous for that vintage rare,/Prized by the giver of the vine/Above all wine—/There dwelt a man whose years had taught him/To seek, beyond what wealth had brought him,/Something to give his transient name/A lasting..."></div> </div> </div>

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