"Empires dissolve and peoples disappear, song passes not away."
"The after-silence, when the feast is o'er,And void the places where the minstrels stood,Differs in nought from what hath been before,And is nor ill nor good."
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Source: William Watson (1936). “The Poems of Sir William Watson: 1878-1935”
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