Fare ye well, meantime, forgotten, unnamed, undreamt of,

History, Science, and Poets! lo, deep in dustiest cupboard,

Thookydid, Oloros’ son, Halimoosian, here lieth buried!

Slumber in Liddell-and-Scott, O musical chaff of old Athens,

Dishes, and fishes, bird, beast, and sesquipedalian blackguard!

Sleep, weary ghosts, be at peace and abide in your lexicon-limbo!

Sleep, as in lava for ages your Herculanean kindred,

Sleep, for aught that I care, ‘the sleep that knows no waking,’

Æschylus, Sophocles, Homer, Herodotus, Pindar, and Plato.

Three weeks hence be it time to exhume our dreary classics.