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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
PORPHYROGNE, by JUDITH JAMES
First Line: The moon tonight is like a tarnished crown
Last Line: We can remember, we can build as well!
Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life
First Line: The moon tonight is like a tarnished crown
Last Line: We can remember, we can build as well!
Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life
The moon tonight is like a tarnished crown
On the dark brow of some old king whose throne
Is fallen and whose banners are struck down.
Yet none so poor among us but may own
An empire and go purple-clad with all
The lords of evening! In a dream we take
Once more immortal cities, gate and wall,
Before the stars give quarter or day break!
These rags drop from us, now the dusk is here;
Splendor precedes us and the world is ours --
Its armies and its architects and towers --
Even to the last impregnable frontier! . . .
What though the golden house of Nero fell:
We can remember, we can build as well!
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