William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Georgian Verse. 1909.
To Him Is Reared No Marble TombWilliam Lisle Bowles (17621850)
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Within the dim cathedral fane;
But some faint flowers of summer bloom,
And silent falls the wintry rain.
Records a verse, a date, a name—
What boots it? when the task is done,
Christian, how vain the sound of fame!