Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,
Birds of Passage — Belisarius
(1847)
“ With majestic step he paced,-- "All, all is Vanity!"Ah! vainest of all things Is the gratitude of kings; The plaudits of the crowd Are but the clatter of feet At midnight in the street, Hollow and restless and loud.But the bitterest disgrace Is to see forever the face Of the Monk of Ephesus! The unconquerable will This, too, can bear;--I still Am Belisarius! This work was published before January 1, 1928, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. ”
