POETRY
By
Arthur Quiller-Couch
"Trust in good verses then:
They only shall aspire,
When pyramids, as men
Are lost i'the funeral fire."
As the tale is told by Plato, in the tenth book of his Republic, one Er the son of Arminius, a Pamphylian, was slain in battle; and ten days afterwards, when they collected the bodies for burial, his body alone showed no taint of corruption. His relatives, however, bore it off to the funeral...
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