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Who rears a temple, rears two monuments: His own and the destroyer's. They who build Accept Herostratos' arbitraments: And to the torch the chisel's work is willed. Both will stand firm before posterity, And equal glory Fame to each will lend. But thou, my air-domed temple, shalt not be Mocked by the vengeance of the general end.

On an abyss of ruin is thy lease, Thou'rt in the furnace of negation fired; n thee the hymns of solace shall not cease: With sorrow winged, by calm despair inspired. Thee, legioned sufferings guard, in iron mail, And in their vanguard Death, who shall prevail.