Park Benjamin - A Great Name lyrics

Time! thou destroyest the relics of the past, And hidest all the footprints of thy march On shattered column and on crumbled arch, By moss and ivy growing green and fast. Hurled into fragments by the tempest-blast The Rhodian monster lies; the obelisk That with sharp line divided the broad disk Of Egypt's sun, down to the sands was cast: And where these stood, no remnant-trophy stands, And even the art is dead by which they rose: Thus, with the monuments of other lands, The place that knew them now no longer knows. Yet triumph not, O, Time; strong towers decay, But a great name shall never pa** away.