Forever extinct seems the age of classical poetry,
With all its cheers from caves, cottages, marble domes and temples,
When now a country honors not classical bards:
O Hugh MacDiarmid, Petrarch, Ono No Komachi, Thomas Chatterton, Robert Browning, James Macpherson, Christina Rossetti, Theophile Gautier, Gavrila Romanovich Derzhavin,
Beside their essence and dignity, little gifts grow dim,
While their Fame...
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