Can storied urn or animated bust
Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath?
Can Honour’s voice provoke the silent dust,
Or Flatt’ry sooth the dull cold ear of Death?
From: Thomas Gray, “Elegy written in a Country Church-yard”
Can storied urn or animated bust
Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath?
Can Honour’s voice provoke the silent dust,
Or Flatt’ry sooth the dull cold ear of Death?
From: Thomas Gray, “Elegy written in a Country Church-yard”