Слава полку Азов, слава защитникам!
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"For they deny that I sold the last of my statuary,
and point with ecstasy at the thing which the shining
shaft of light left cold, petrified, and unvocal.
It is all that remains of my friend;
the friend who led me on to madness and wreckage;
a godlike head of such marble as only old Hellas could yield,
young with the youth that is outside time,
and with beauteous bearded face, curved,
smiling lips, Olympian brow,
and dense locks waving and poppy-crowned.
They say that that haunting memory-face
is modelled from my own, as it was at twenty-five,
but upon the marble base is carven a single
name in the letters of Attica—’ΥΠΝΟΣ."

[©Howard Phillips Lovecraft, "Hypnos".]
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