Don Juan 04-104
Canto the Fourth
 
 CIV

I pass each day where Dante's bones are laid:
 A little cupola, more neat than solemn,
Protects his dust, but reverence here is paid
 To the bard's tomb, and not the warrior's column.
The time must come, when both alike decay'd,
 The chieftain's trophy, and the poet's volume,
Will sink where lie the songs and wars of earth,
Before Pelides' death, or Homer's birth.

George Gordon Byron, Lord Byron (1788-1824) 
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