The Gods Remember (draft)

Lost wonders of the ages
  Lie smoldered into embers—
  The naked breasts of Isis
  Baal-pteor still remembers.

When Time has left his turret
  These memories shall last—
  Astarte’s dimpled shoulders
  The ivory thighs of Bast.

Tyre’s towers lie in ruins,
  And Babel’s shrines are rotten—
  Where are the kings that worshipped?
  The Ruler has forgotten.

He dreams of strange eyed mermaids
  He kissed by nameless seas—
  The times he lay in pleasure
  Between Mylitta’s knees.)