The Black Watch Memorial

Ye Sons of Mars, it gives me great content
To think there has been erected a handsome monument
In memory of the Black Watch, which is magnificent to see,
Where they first were embodied at Aberfeldy.

And as a Highland regiment they are worthy of what has been done for them,
Because a more courageous regiment we cannot find of men
Who have bravely fought and bled in defence of their country,
Especially in the Ruusian War and Soudan War they made their enemies flee.

The monument I hope will stand secure for many a long day,
And may the people of Aberfeldy always feel gay;
As they gaze upon the beautiful Black Watch monument,
I hope they will think of the brave soldiers and feel content.

'Twas in the year of 1887, and on Saturday the 12th of November,
Which the people of Aberfeldy and elsewhere will remember,
Who came all the way from Edinburgh, Glasgow, Perth and Dundee,
Besides the Pitlochry Volunteers headed the procession right manfully.

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poem by William Topaz McGonagall
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It seems to me that it had no other rationale than to show that we are not simply the country of entertainers, but also that of engineers and builders called from across the world to build bridges, viaducts, stations and major monuments of modern industry, the Eiffel Tower deserves to be treated with consideration.

classic quote by Gustave Eiffel
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My hope lies with people who never go to Washington except to see the monuments.

quote by Joel Kotkin
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There is no monument dedicated to the memory of a committee.

quote by Lester J. Pourciau
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Ballade Of Cleopatra's Needle

Ye giant shades of RA and TUM,
Ye ghosts of gods Egyptian,
If murmurs of our planet come
To exiles in the precincts wan
Where, fetish or Olympian,
To help or harm no more ye list,
Look down, if look ye may, and scan
This monument in London mist!

Behold, the hieroglyphs are dumb
That once were read of him that ran
When seistron, cymbal, trump, and drum
Wild music of the Bull began;
When through the chanting priestly clan
Walk'd Ramses, and the high sun kiss'd
This stone, with blessing scored and ban -
This monument in London mist.

The stone endures though gods be numb;
Though human effort, plot, and plan

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poem by Andrew Lang
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Sailing to Byzantium

That is no country for old men. The young
In one another’s arms, birds in the trees
—Those dying generations—at their song,
The salmon-falls, the mackerel-crowded seas,
Fish, flesh, or fowl, commend all summer long
Whatever is begotten, born, and dies.
Caught in that sensual music all neglect
Monuments of unageing intellect.

An aged man is but a paltry thing,
A tattered coat upon a stick, unless
Soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing
For every tatter in its mortal dress,
Nor is there singing school but studying
Monuments of its own magnificence;
And therefore I have sailed the seas and come
To the holy city of Byzantium.

O sages standing in God’s holy fire
As in the gold mosaic of a wall,

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poem by William Butler Yeats
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Natural Beauty

On the roller coaster ride
That my emotions have to take me on
I heard a newborn baby cry
Through the night.
I heard a perfect echo die
Into an anonymous wall of digital sound
Somewhere deep inside
Of my soul.
A natural beauty should be preserved like a monument to nature
Dont judge yourself too harsh, my love
Or someday you might find your soul endangered
A natural beauty should be preserved like a monument to nature.
Amazon
You had so much and now so much is gone
What are you gonna do
With your life?
What a lucky man.
To see the earth before it touched his hand
What an angry fool
To condemn.

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song performed by Neil Young
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Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.

quote by Kin Hubbard
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Memory is the treasure house of the mind wherein the monuments thereof are kept and preserved.

quote by Thomas Fuller
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I've done an awful lot of stuff that's a monument to public patience.

quote by Tyrone Power
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The poets' scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death.

quote by Edmund Spenser
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What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.

quote by Pericles
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An Epitaph On Her Self.

When I am Dead, few Friends attend my Hearse,
And for a Monument, I leave my VERSE.

poem by Anne Killigrew
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After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.

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New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent.

quote by Frank Lloyd Wright
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The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death; so are statues and inscriptions; so is history.

quote by Lew Wallace
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To My Bones

In my sleep it rips through
my meagre skin
throws off the red bandage of the flesh
and goes strolling through the room
my monument a little incomplete

one can be prodigal
with tears and blood
what will endure here the longest
must be thoughtfully provided for

better (than with a priest's dry finger
to the rains which drip from a cloud of sand)
to give one's monument to the academey

they will prop it up in a glass display case
and in Latin they will pray before
the little altar made from an os frontalis

they will reckon the bones and surfaces

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poem by Zbigniew Herbert
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Death comes to all But great achievements raise a monument Which shall endure until the sun grows old.

quote by George Fabricius
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The pudding that smells anthropological

My singsong beloved grumbles these days
As she needs to make a pudding for an Exhibition
And she expects a new idea.
Then I said; ' Try this method darling!
Make layers of all the ethnics in the World in their distinguished colors
And the top leave a hard icing with symbolic monuments of the tyranny rulers,
It should be a strong one like iron otherwise the monuments sink in the pudding and get discolored.
If you want you can named it as Dwarfs and Giants.'

* To my friend George Murdock in gratitude as he firmly believes that water is colorless.

poem by Nimal Dunuhinga
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Art is very tricky because it's what you do for yourself. It's much harder for me to make those works than the monuments or the architecture.

quote by Maya Lin
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