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

Cities and Thrones and Powers