Sapphic Fragment

 "Thou shalt be--Nothing."--Omar Khayyam. 
"Tombless, with no remembrance."--W. Shakespeare. 

Dead shalt thou lie; and nought 
 Be told of thee or thought, 
For thou hast plucked not of the Muses' tree: 
 And even in Hades' halls 
 Amidst thy fellow-thralls 
No friendly shade thy shade shall company!

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