Of earth and heaven; but when, in subtle pride,

He makes a friend of wrong, is driven astray

And broken apart, like dust before the wind.

All now, except the heights, had died away

Into the dark. Only the Parthenon raised

A brow like drifted snow against the west.

He watched it, melting into the flood of night

With all those memories.

Then he turned and said,

“If in a moment’s thoughtless greed I grasped