<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=358554" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Dead Cleopatra</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Dead Cleopatra lies in a crystal casket, <br>Wrapped and spiced by the cunningest of hands. <br>Around her neck they have put a golden necklace <br>Her tatbebs, it is said, are worn with sands. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Dead Cleopatra was once revered in Egypt— <br>Warm-eyed she was, this princess of the south. <br>Now she is very old and dry and faded, <br>With black bitumen they have sealed up her mouth. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Grave-robbers pulled the gold rings from her fingers, <br>Despite the holy symbols across her breast; <br>They scared the bats that quietly whirled above her. <br>Poor lady! she would have been long since at rest </div><div style="margin:10px 0">If she had not been wrapped and spiced so shrewdly, <br>Preserved, obscene, to mock black flights of years. <br>What would her lover have said, had he foreseen it? <br>Had he been moved to ecstasy, or tears? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">O sweet clean earth from whom the green blade cometh!— <br>When we are dead, my best-beloved and I, <br>Close well above us that we may rest forever, <br>Sending up grass and blossoms to the sky.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Conrad+Potter+Aiken">Conrad Potter Aiken</a><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=358554" data-title="Dead Cleopatra de Conrad Potter Aiken" data-description="Dead Cleopatra lies in a crystal casket, Wrapped and spiced by the cunningest of hands. Around her neck they have put a golden necklace Her tatbebs, it is said, are worn with sands. Dead Cleopatra was once revered in Egypt— Warm-eyed she w..."></div> </div> </div>

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