Matthew Arnold (matthewarnold)
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Many spent fames and fallen mights--
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Where many a splendour finds its tomb,
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O'er that wide plain, now wrapt in gloom,
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Did its now silent warfare wage--
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And o'er the plain, where the dead age
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In the hot press of the noon-day.
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Delicate spirits, push'd away
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Of this or that down-trodden name
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Ascending pure, the bell-like fame
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Now strifes are hush'd, our ears doth meet,
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And in the after-silence sweet,
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The puissant crown'd, the weak laid low.
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Uphung the spear, unbent the bow,
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The combatants are parted now--
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The famous critics judged it all.
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The famous painters fill'd their wall,
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The famous players, sculptors, wrought,
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The famous speculators thought,
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The famous men of war have fought,
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The famous poets sung and gone,
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