text:  It is a beautiful additional page in the poems of Homer the end of all history and of all poetry! Unknown tombs ruins without a certain name; the earth naked and dark but imperfectly lighted by the immortal luminaries; new spectators passing by the old coast and repeating for the thousandth time the common epitaph of mortality! Here lies an empire here a town here a people here a hero! God alone is great and the thought which seeks and adores him alone is imperishable upon earth