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Robert Southey - Inscription 05 - For A Monument At Silbury-Hill
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This mound in some remote and dateless day
Rear`d o`er a Chieftain of the Age of Hills,
May here detain thee Traveller! from thy road
Not idly lingering. In his narrow house
Some Warrior sleeps below: his gallant deeds
Haply at many a solemn festival
The Bard has harp`d, but perish`d is the song
Of praise, as o`er these bleak and barren downs
The wind that passes and is heard no more.
Go Traveller on thy way, and contemplate
Glory`s brief pageant, and remember then
That one good deed was never wrought in vain.
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