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How lived, how loved, how died they?

" Dead! the glorious Dead!—And shall they rise? Shall they look on thee with their proud bright eyes? Thou ask'st a fearful spell! Yet say, from shrine or dim sepulchral hall, What kingly vision shall obey my call? The deep grave knows it well!

"Wouldst thou behold earth's conquerors? shall they pass Before thee, flushing all the Magic Glass With triumph's long array?