Etruscan Tombs
What did he choose for witness in the grave?
A record of his glory on the earth?
The wail of friends ? The psans of the brave?
The sacred promise of the second birth?
The tombs of ancient Greeks in Sicily
Are sown with slender discs of graven gold
Filled with the praise of death: thrice happy he
Who sleeps the milk-soft sleep of dreams untold.
They sleep their patient sleep in altered lands,
The golden promise in their fleshless hands.
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