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And is this all now remaining of him
Who appear'd as would a fair emanation
Of higher intelligence, to which dim Would
be the mind of ev"ry earth-born station,

As an impersonated constellation
Were contrasting primeval glory here,
Showing to each age and successive nation
His fame, in immortality's arrear ? "

They keep his dust in Arqua, where he died ;"
But if thought is soul it is still on earth,
Spreading as does th' ambient ether wide —
What the mortal frame must succumb to — death
Having no pow'r o'er that which will outlast
Pyramidal greatness, living when that ia past.