| Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). A Victorian Anthology, 1837–1895. 1895. |
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| | | Henry Alford (1810–71) |
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| COLONOS! can it be that thou hast still | |
| Thy laurel and thine olives and thy vine? | |
| Do thy close-feather’d nightingales yet trill | |
| Their warbles of thick-sobbing song divine? | |
| Does the gold sheen of the crocus o’er thee shine | 5 |
| And dew-fed clusters of the daffodil, | |
| And round thy flowery knots Cephisus twine, | |
| Aye oozing up with many a bubbling rill? | |
| Oh, might I stand beside thy leafy knoll, | |
| In sight of the far-off city-towers, and see | 10 |
| The faithful-hearted pure Antigone | |
| Toward the dread precinct, leading sad and slow | |
| That awful temple of a kingly soul, | |
| Lifted to heaven by unexampled woe! | |
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