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The blue poetry book (1912)

Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912, Ford, H. J. (Henry Justice), 1860-1941, ill, Speed, Lancelot, 1860-1931, ill · New York, Longmans, Green and co. · leaf 316

An illustration from The blue poetry book, 1912, leaf 316
that sad embroidery wears :Bid amaranthus all his beauty shed.And dafifadilhes fill their cups with tears.To strew the laureate hearse where Lycid lies.For so to interpose a little ease,Let our frail thoughts dally with false surmise.Ay me! whilst thee the shores, and sounding seas LYCIDAS Wash far… … Sleepst by the fable of Bellerus old,Where the great Vision of the guarded mountLooks towards Namancos and Bayonas hold;Look homeward Angel now, and melt with ruth :And, 0 ye dolphins, waft the hapless youth. Weep no more, woeful shepherds, weep no moreFor Lycidas, your sorrow, is not dead,Sunk…

English poetry · Children's poetry

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