“And the king wanted an inscription good for a thousand
years and after that to the end of the world?”
“Yes, precisely so.”
“Something so true and awful that no matter what happened it
would stand?”
“Yes, exactly that.”
“Something no matter who spit on it or laughed at it there
it would stand and nothing would change it?”
“Yes, that was what the king ordered his wise men to write.”
“And what did they write?”
“Five words: THIS TOO SHALL PASS AWAY.”
Carl Sandburg, The People, Yes
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