Upon the future life we build, As built the toilers of the Nile, Whose rude and ruthless tyrants willed That God's eternal sun should smile On monuments of dust and stone Which should defy the flight of Time, Beneath dumb hieroglyphics groan, The wonder of each age and clime! And still they stand, in Winter's storms And vernal Summer's rays benign, Lifting on high grand, gloomy forms Round which eternity may twine! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ODE FOR THE BURIAL OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT THE SURRENDER AT APPOMATTOX [APRIL 9, 1865] by HERMAN MELVILLE LACHRYMAE MUSARUM (THE DEATH OF TENNYSON) by WILLIAM WATSON THE RUNNER WITH THE LOTS by LEONIE ADAMS |