Century follows century – there is stands!
Empires rise and fall and are forgotten – there it stands!
Dynasty succeeds dynasty – there it stands!
Kings are crowned and uncrowned – there it stands!
Despised and torn to pieces – there it stands!
Storms of hate swirl about it – there it stands!
Atheists rail against it – there it stands!
Agnostics smile cynically – there it stands!
Profane, prayerless punsters caricature it – there it stands!
An anvil that has broken a million hammers – there it stands!
The flames are kindled about it – there it stands!
The arrows of hate are discharged against it – there it stands!
Radicalism rants and raves against it – there it stands!
Fogs of sophistry conceal it temporarily – there it stands!
The tooth of time gnaws, but makes no dent in it – there it stands!
--A. Z. Conrad.