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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
CENOTAPH, by GLAUCUS OF NICOPOLIS Poet's Biography
First Line: No heap of dust and petty stones
Last Line: Only the sea-mews know.
Variant Title(s): Full Fathom Five
Subject(s): Monuments
First Line: No heap of dust and petty stones
Last Line: Only the sea-mews know.
Variant Title(s): Full Fathom Five
Subject(s): Monuments
NO heap of dust and petty stones
Marks Erasippus' grave;
His tomb spreads wide before thine eye,
The illimitable wave.
Lost with his ship, somewhere his bones
Are mouldering below,
Whelmed in the deep; but where they lie
Only the sea-mews know.
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