名人诗歌|Old Age Echoes（三）

OF heroes， history， grand events， premises^{1， myths， poems，}

The few drops known must stand for oceans of the

unknown，

On this beautiful and thick peopl'd earth， here and there a

little specimen^{2 put on record，}

A little of Greeks and Romans， a few Hebrew canticles， a few

death odors as from graves， from Egypt -

What are they to the long and copious^{3 retrospect4 of anti quity？}