<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=529564" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Rome at the Pyramid of Cestius Near the Graves of Shelley and Keats (1887)</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Who, then, was Cestius, <br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And what is he to me? - <br>Amid thick thoughts and memories multitudinous <br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;One thought alone brings he. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;I can recall no word <br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Of anything he did; <br>For me he is a man who died and was interred <br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;To leave a pyramid </div><div style="margin:10px 0">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Whose purpose was exprest <br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Not with its first design, <br>Nor till, far down in Time, beside it found their rest <br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Two countrymen of mine. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Cestius in life, maybe, <br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Slew, breathed out threatening; <br>I know not. This I know: in death all silently <br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;He does a kindlier thing, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;In beckoning pilgrim feet <br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;With marble finger high <br>To where, by shadowy wall and history-haunted street, <br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Those matchless singers lie . . . </div><div style="margin:10px 0">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;--Say, then, he lived and died <br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;That stones which bear his name <br>Should mark, through Time, where two immortal Shades abide; <br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;It is an ample fame.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Thomas+Hardy">Thomas Hardy</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=529564" data-title="Rome at the Pyramid of Cestius Near the Graves of Shelley and Keats (1887) de Thomas Hardy" data-description="Who, then, was Cestius, &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And what is he to me? - Amid thick thoughts and memories multitudinous &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;One thought alone brings he. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;I can recall no word &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Of anything he did; For..."></div> </div> </div>

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