To the Dead

Where is your treasure now? — and where is Fame?
Your gems, your sceptre's pride, your beauty's claim,
Inhabitants of dust, and shades of breath!
What now imports the race that you had run?
The herald's trophies, or the laurels won?
Your name perhaps may tell us of — your death .
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