Nadien geen mind’re plaats zyn tempel kan verstrekken!
Or thus in English:
Erasmus, here, the eloquent and wise,
That Sun of Learning! rose, and spread his beam
O’er a benighted world, through lowering skies,
And shed on Basil’s towers his parting gleam.
There his great relics lie: he blest the place:
No proud preserver of his fame shall prove
The Parian pile; tho’ fraught with sculptur’d grace:
Reader! his mausoleum is above.