'A statue in the theatre!' wants one;

Another 'Bring the poet's body back,

Bury him in Peiraios: o'er his tomb

Let Alkamenes carve the music-witch,

The songstress-siren, meed of melody:

Thoukudides invent his epitaph!'

To-night the whole town pays its tribute thus."

Our tribute should not be the same, my friend!

Statue? Within our heart he stood, he stands!

As for the vest outgrown now by the form,