Autocephalous Greek-Orthodox Church of Cyprus and the Republic of Cyprus v. Goldberg and Feldman Fine Arts, Inc., and Peg Goldberg

BAUER, Chief Judge.

There is a temple in ruin stands,

Fashion’d by long forgotten hands;

Two or three columns, and many a stone,

Marble and granite, with grass o’ergrown!

Out upon Time! it will leave no more

Of the things to come than the things before!

Out upon Time! who for ever will leave

But enough of the past and the future to grieve

O’er that which hath been, and o’er that which must be:

What we have seen, our sons shall see;

Remnants of things that have pass’d away,

Fragments of stone, rear’d by creatures of clay!

from The Siege of Corinth,

George Gordon (Lord Byron)1

Byron, writing here of the…