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Article: On the Acropolis.(Poem)
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- American Scholar
- Article date:
- September 22, 2002
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On the Acropolis
It doesn't seem as though we could die up here, does it?
The Acropolis is so old that death on it seems superfluous.
So we can afford to take some chances--
Leap off the wall! Bash statues with our heads!
God smiles down at the Acropolis. It's a good church
But with the wrong idea. Then he is distracted by his children
Scattered among the chambers of the sea.
Old friends, I am thinking of you still.
You built the Acropolis but you didn't build it for me.
The Acropolis has a uniform
That no schoolboy can wear because it is invisible.
"It goes to the Periclean School!"
When I first came to Greece
I was ...
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