I Slept, and, waking in the years to be,
    Heard voices, and approaching whence they came,
  Listened indifferently where a key
    Had lately been removed. An ancient dame
  Said to her daughter: "Go to yonder caddy
  And get some emery to scour your daddy."

  And then I knew—some intuition said—
    That tombs were not and men had cleared their shelves
  Of urns; and the electro-plated dead
    Stood pedestaled as statues of themselves.
  With famous dead men all the public places
  Were thronged, and some in piles awaited bases.

  One mighty structure's high fagade alone
  Contained a single monumental niche,
  Where, central in that steep expanse of stone,
  Gleamed the familiar form of Thomas Fitch.
  A man cried: "Lo! Truth's temple and its founder!"
  Then gravely added: "I'm her chief expounder."