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an Archeology Poem

James Elroy Flecker 1884 (London) – 1915

We are dead by our living was great;
We are dumb but a song of our state
Will roam through the darkness and wait
With its burden of long long ago.
'Til a scholar from sea bright lands
Unearths from the years and the sands
An image with beautiful hands
And know what we want him to know.

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an Archeology Poem -- I do not know the title but my archeologist mother quoted it often.

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Scheme AAABCCCB
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 286
Words 60
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 8
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James Elroy Flecker

James Elroy Flecker was an English poet, novelist and playwright. As a poet he was most influenced by the Parnassian poets. more…

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