DionisGriffin

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  September 2022     1 year ago

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an Archeology Poem

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...

– by James Elroy Flecker

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On the Vanity of Earthly Greatness”

The tusks which clashed in mighty brawls
Of mastodons, are billiard balls.
The sword of Charlemagne the Just
Is Ferric Oxide, known as rust.
The grizzly bear, whose potent hug
Was feared by all, is now a rug.
Great Caesar's bust is on the...

– by Arthur Guiterman

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I'd like to add another poem by Guiterman, often quoted by my archeologist mother. How do I do that?

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