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Dust of the desert are thy walls	A
And temple towers O Babylon	B
O'er crumbled halls the lizard crawls	A
And serpents bask in blaze of sun	C
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In vain kings piled the Pyramids	D
Their tombs were robbed by ruthless hands	E
Who now shall sing their fame and deeds	F
Or sift their ashes from the sands	E
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Deep in the drift of ages hoar	G
Lie nations lost and kings forgot	H
Above their graves the oceans roar	G
Or desert sands drift o'er the spot	H
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A thousand years are but a day	I
When reckoned on the wrinkled earth	J
And who among the wise shall say	I
What cycle saw the primal birth	J
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Of man who lords on sea and land	K
And builds his monuments to day	I
Like Syrian on the desert sand	K
To crumble and be blown away	I
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Proud chiefs of pageant armies led	L
To fame and death their followers forth	M
Ere Helen sinned and Hector bled	L
Or Odin ruled the rugged North	M
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And poets sang immortal praise	N
To mortal heroes ere the fire	O
Of Homer blazed in Ilion lays	N
Or Brage tuned the Northern lyre	P
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For fame men piled the Pyramids	D
Their names have perished with their bones	Q
For fame men wrote their boasted deeds	F
On Babel bricks and Runic stones	Q
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On Tyrian temples gates of brass	R
On Roman arch and Damask blades	S
And perished like the desert grass	R
That springs to day to morrow fades	S
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And still for fame men delve and die	T
In Afric heat and Arctic cold	U
For fame on flood and field they vie	T
Or gather in the shining gold	U
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Time like the ocean onward rolls	V
Relentless burying men and deeds	F
The brightest names the bravest souls	V
Float but an hour like ocean weeds	F
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Then sink forever In the slime	W
Forgotten lost forevermore	P
Lies Fame from every age and clime	W
Yet thousands clamor on the shore	P
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Immortal Fame O dust and death	X
The centuries as they pass proclaim	W
That Fame is but a mortal breath	X
That man must perish name and fame	W
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The earth is but a grain of sand	K
An atom in a shoreless sea	Y
A million worlds lie in God's hand	K
Yea myriad millions what are we	Y
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O mortal man of bone and blood	Z
Then is there nothing left but dust	A2
God made us He is wise and good	B2
And we may humbly hope and trust	A2

Hanford Lennox Gordon

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