Osbert Sitwell (1892–1969) British baronet
"When First the Poets Sung", line 47.
These lines were repeatedly drawn on by Sitwell in his later works.
“Cities and Thrones and Powers,
Stand in Time's eye,
Almost as long as flowers,
Which daily die:
But, as new buds put forth
To glad new men,
Out of the spent and unconsidered Earth,
The Cities rise again.”
Cities and Thrones and Powers, Stanza 1 (1906).
Puck of Pook's Hill 1906
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