Lines To The Memory Of Erasmus, By Oudaan, Inscribed On The Pedestal Of The Statue Raised In Honour Of The Former, In Rotterdam.
Erasmus, here, the eloquent and wise,
That Sun of Learning! rose, and spread his beam
O'er a benighted world, thro' low'ring skies,
And shed on Basil's tow'rs his parting gleam.
There his great relics lie: he bless'd the place:
No proud preserver of his fame shall prove
The Parian pile, tho' fraught with sculptur'd grace:
Reader! his mausoleum is above.
That Sun of Learning! rose, and spread his beam
O'er a benighted world, thro' low'ring skies,
And shed on Basil's tow'rs his parting gleam.
There his great relics lie: he bless'd the place:
No proud preserver of his fame shall prove
The Parian pile, tho' fraught with sculptur'd grace:
Reader! his mausoleum is above.
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