She was so light, so frail a thing,

She had no wisdom but her face,

Which caught men's fancy like the Spring

Yet held them but a moment's space.

She is the youngest of the dead,

And so the great lean round her feet;

They strive to learn from her fair head

Why far-forgotten life was sweet.

For now she knows what Plato knows,

And lapped in languor she agrees

With Kant, and as her soft hair blows,

Smiling, she flouts Demosthenes.

"Smiling, she flouts Demosthenes"