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INSCRIBED ON A CENOTAPH by SIMONIDES OF CEOS

First Line: O CLOUD-CAPT GERANEIA, ROCK UNBLEST!
Last Line: THIS TOMB SPEAKS, TENANTLESS, HIS OCEAN-GRAVE.
Subject(s): GERANEIA, GREECE;

O CLOUD-CAPT Geraneia, rock unblest!
Would thou hadst reared far hence thy haughty crest,
By Tanais wild, or wastes where Ister flows,
Nor looked on Sciron from thy silent snows!
A cold, cold corpse he lies beneath the wave,
This tomb speaks, tenantless, his ocean-grave.



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