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 Their monument sticks like a fishbone
 in the city's throat.  
 Their monument sticks like a fishbone
 in the city's throat. 
 Good Gertrude, set some watch over your son.--
 This grave shall have a living monument.
  An hour read more 
 Good Gertrude, set some watch over your son.--
 This grave shall have a living monument.
  An hour of quiet shortly shall we see;
   Till then in patience our proceeding be. 
 He is covered by the heavens who has no sepulchral urn.
 [Lat., Coelo tegitur qui non habet urnam.]  
 He is covered by the heavens who has no sepulchral urn.
 [Lat., Coelo tegitur qui non habet urnam.] 
 If we work upon marble it will perish. If we work upon brass 
time will efface it. If we read more 
 If we work upon marble it will perish. If we work upon brass 
time will efface it. If we rear temples they will crumble to 
dust. But if we work upon men's immortal minds, if we imbue them 
with high principles, with the just fear of God and love of their 
fellow men, we engrave on those tablets something which no time 
can efface, and which will brighten and brighten to all eternity. 
 He made him a hut, wherein he did put
 The carcass of Robinson Crusoe.
  O poor Robinson read more 
 He made him a hut, wherein he did put
 The carcass of Robinson Crusoe.
  O poor Robinson Crusoe! 
 To extend our memories by monuments, whose death we daily pray 
for, and whose duration we cannot hope, without read more 
 To extend our memories by monuments, whose death we daily pray 
for, and whose duration we cannot hope, without injury to our 
expectations in the advent of the last day, were a contradiction 
to our belief. 
 Where London's column, pointing at the skies,
 Like a tall bully, lifts the head and lies.  
 Where London's column, pointing at the skies,
 Like a tall bully, lifts the head and lies. 
 Let it rise! let it rise, till it meet the sum in his coming; 
let the earliest light of read more 
 Let it rise! let it rise, till it meet the sum in his coming; 
let the earliest light of the morning gild it, and the parting 
day linger and play on its summit.