"Empires dissolve and peoples disappear, song passes not away."
"A dreamer of the common dreams, A fisher in familiar streams, He chased the transitory gleams That all pursue; But on his lips the eternal themes Again were new."
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Source: Sir William Watson, John Alfred Spender (1905). “The Poems of William Watson”
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