Pyramid of Cestius an essential sight for many who undertook the Grand Tour in the 18th and 19th centuries. It was much admired by architects, becoming the primary model for pyramids built in the West during this period. Percy Bysshe Shelley described it as "one keen pyramid with wedge sublime" in "Adonaïs", his 1821 elegy for John Keats. In turn the English novelist and poet Thomas Hardy saw the pyramid during a visit to the nearby Protestant Cemetery in 1887 and was inspired to write a poem, "Rome: At the Pyramid of Cestius near the Graves of Shelley and Keats", in which he
Pastoral Elegy (hymn) in the clay,<br> His cheeks bloom with roses no more,<br> Since death called his spirit away."" Pastoral Elegy (hymn) The Pastoral Elegy is a hymn from the "Old Missouri Harmony Songbook". The Town of Corydon, Indiana is named after a person in this hymn. The mournful, period song tells the tale of a young shepherd boy named Corydon who died. Governor William Henry Harrison of the Indiana Territory would visit frequently the land the area that would become Corydon. He owned in present-day Harrison County, even the land on which the Corydon Capitol building was built on. According to the