Walter Savage Landor. Verse. Fuess and Stearns, comps. 1922. The Little Book of Society Verse

Fuess and Stearns, comps. The Little Book of Society Verse. 1922.

Verse

By Walter Savage Landor


PAST ruin’d Dion Helen lives,
Alcestis rises from the shades;
Verse calls them forth; ’t is verse that gives
Immortal youth to mortal maids.

Soon shall Oblivion’s deepening veil	5
Hide all the peopled hills you see,
The gay, the proud, while lovers hail
These many summers you and me.