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monument (n.)

The Pilgrim of Eternity, whose fame

Over his living head like heaven is bent,

An early but enduring monument,

Came, veiling all the lightnings of his song

In sorrow.

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822): Adonais. xxx.

Your monument shall be my gentle verse,

Which eyes not yet created shall o'er-read,

And tongues to be your being shall rehearse

When all the breathers of this world are dead;

You still shall live—such virtue hath my pen—

Where breath most breathes, even in the mouths of men.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Sonnet lxxxi.

  An you had any eye behind you, you might see more detraction at your heels than fortunes before you.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Twelfth Night. Act ii. Sc. 5.