Columbia Encyclopedia World Factbook American Heritage Coll. Languages T HERE are no handles upon a language Whereby men take hold of it And mark it with signs for its remembrance. It is a river, this language, Once in a thousand years 5 Breaking a new course Changing its way to the ocean. And from nation to nation 10 Crossing borders and mixing.
Languages die like rivers.
Now and today Shall be faded hieroglyphics Ten thousand years from now. Blowing ten thousand years ago.