Poem by Walter Savage Landor

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            Ternissa! you are fled!
            I say not to the dead,
      But to the happy ones who rest below:
            For, surely, surely, where
            Your voice and graces are,
      Nothing of death can any feel or know.
            Girls who delight to dwell
            Where grows most asphodel,
      Gather to their calm breasts each word you speak:
            The mild Persephone
            Places you on her knee,
      And your cool palm smooths down stern Pluto's cheek.

1. Twenty Years Hence My Eyes May Grow
2. A Pastoral
3. Idle Words
4. To Barry Cornwall
5. Leaf after Leaf Drops off, Flower after Flower

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