"Empires dissolve and peoples disappear, song passes not away."
"He saw wan Woman toil with famished eyes; He saw her bound, and strove to sing her free. He saw her fall'n; and wrote "The Bridge of Sighs"; And on it crossed to immortality."
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Source: William Watson, “Thomas Hood”
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