The Parthenon Frieze, and Other Essays (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Parthenon Frieze, and Other Essays<br><br>Upon a broken tombstone of the Prime,<br>When youths, who loved the gods, were loved again<br>And rapt from sight, two human forms remain.<br>One, shrunk with years and hoary with their rime,<br>Gropes for the hand of one who sits sublime<br>And, calm in large-limbed youth, prepares to drain<br>The cup of endless life. In vain! in vain!<br>He cannot reach beyond the screen of time.<br>So, Arthur, as our human years go by,<br>I stand and blindly grope for thy dear hand,<br>And listen for a whisper from thy tongue.<br>In vain! in vain! I only hear Love cry:<br>"He feasts with gods upon the eternal strand;<br>For they in whom the gods delight die young."<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.