Stone-cutters fighting time with marble, you fore
Challengers of
Eat cynical earnings, knowing rock splits, records fall down,
The square-limbed Roman
Scale in the thaws, wear in the rain.
The poet as
Builds his monument mockingly;
For man will be blotted out, the blithe earth die, the brave
Die blind and blacken to the heart:
Yet stones have stood for a thousand years, and pained thoughts
The honey of peace in old poems.
