Die then, who pulled such glory on your heads!

There let it grind to powder! Perikles!

The living are the dead now: death be life!

Why should the sunset yonder waste its wealth?

Prove thee Olumpian! If my heart supply

Inviolate the structure,—true to type,

Build me some spirit-place no flesh shall find,

As Pheidias may inspire thee; slab on slab,

Renew Athenai, quarry out the cloud,

Convert to gold yon west extravagance!