And the great lapis lazuli dome where the gods of our race had a home

Will break like a wave from the foam, and shred into fiery rain.

No more on the long summer days shall we walk in the meadow-sweet ways

With the teachers of music and phrase, and the masters of dance and

No more when the trumpeter calls shall we feast in the white-light halls;

For stayed are the soft footfalls of the moon-browed bearers of wine,

And lost are the statues of Kings and of Gods with great glorious wings,

And an empire of beautiful things, and the lips of the love who was mine.