Lies dead, obscure in Time’s great dusty vault.

Not so in memory, for truly here,

Each and alike look up and do revear

Those heroes of the hidden past. Plato,

Who’s understanding reached the wide world’s end;

Aristides, that just and noble man.

And last, not least, the great wise Pericles

Who’s socialistic views and clever ways

For governing the rich and poor alike

Were to be envied. In his eyes must Greece