<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=456052" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Colossi of the Plain</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ancient of Days! Before the Trojan Wars <br>You towered as now in your colossal prime, <br>Watching the rosy footed morning climb <br>O'er far Arabia's flushing mountain bars. <br>Despite your weird disfigurement and scars <br>You dwarf all other monuments. Sublime <br>Survivors of old Thebes! you baffle Time, <br>And sit in silent conclave with the Stars. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ah, once below you through the glittering plain <br>Stretched avenues of Sphinxes to the Nile; <br>And, flanked with towers, each consecrated fane <br>Enshrined its god. The broken gods lie prone <br>In roofless halls, their hallowed terrors gone, <br>Helpless beneath Heaven's penetrating smile.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Mathilde+Blind">Mathilde Blind</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=456052" data-title="The Colossi of the Plain de Mathilde Blind" data-description="Ancient of Days! Before the Trojan Wars You towered as now in your colossal prime, Watching the rosy footed morning climb O'er far Arabia's flushing mountain bars. Despite your weird disfigurement and scars You dwarf all other monuments. Subl..."></div> </div> </div>

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