What are the hopes of man? Old Egypt's KingCheops erected the first pyramidAnd largest, thinking it was just the thingTo keep his memory whole, and mummy hid;But somebody or other rummaging,Burglariously broke his coffin's lid:Let not a monument give you or me hopes,Since not a pinch of dust remains of Cheops.
-Lord Byron
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