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Edwin Arlington Robinson - Monadnock through the Trees
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Before there was in Egypt any sound  
Of those who reared a more prodigious means  
For the self-heavy sleep of kings and queens  
Than hitherto had mocked the most renowned,—  
Unvisioned here and waiting to be found,
Alone, amid remote and older scenes,  
You loomed above ancestral evergreens  
Before there were the first of us around.  
  
And when the last of us, if we know how,  
See farther from ourselves than we do now,
Assured with other sight than heretofore  
That we have done our mortal best and worst,—  
Your calm will be the same as when the first  
Assyrians went howling south to war.
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