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TO HELEN
by Edgar Allan PoeHELEN, thy beauty is to me
Like those Nicean barks of yore,
That gently, o'er a perfumed sea,
The weary way-worn wanderer bore
To his own native shore.
On desperate seas long wont to roam,
Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face,
- Thy
- Naiad airs have brought me home
To the glory that was Greece,
And the grandeur that was Rome.
Lo ! in yon brilliant window-niche
How statue-like I me thee stand,
- The
- agate lamp within thy hand!
Ah, Psyche, from the regions which
Are Holy-land !
2021
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