Classic Poem

Your masterpieces rich and rare
Are priceless and antique;
Scopas is represented there,
Your ‘Myrons’ are unique;

Reliefs that Phidias' graver wrought,
Cups by Praxiteles,
‘Mentors’ by others vainly sought
Bear company with these.

You do not honour Greece alone
Nor later work disdain;
Here are the finest ‘Gratians’ known,
There gold inlay from Spain.

Heirlooms these bas-reliefs must be,
They show ancestral taste.
How strange—You are a debauchee,
But all your plate is chased!