The poetical wanderer containing, dissertations On the early poetry of Greece, On tragic poetry, and on the power Of noble actions on the mind. To which are added, several poems |
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Beneath the beach-trees, weeping oft I stand
And read my name carv'd by your gentle hand,
As their round trunks increase, expands the name,
To shew and vindicate Oenone's claim.
There grows a poplar on the river's steep,
(Ah well I know it, there I sit and weep)
Which blooms and thrives your treachery to prove,
And bears the motto of our early love:
Flourish thou poplar by the waters fed,
On whose green bark, these well-known lines are read
“Sooner shall Xanthus leave his channel dry,
“Than Paris live without Oenone's by;”
Xanthus flow back! ye murm'ring streams decay,
Paris still lives, is faithless, far away.
And read my name carv'd by your gentle hand,
As their round trunks increase, expands the name,
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There grows a poplar on the river's steep,
(Ah well I know it, there I sit and weep)
Which blooms and thrives your treachery to prove,
And bears the motto of our early love:
Flourish thou poplar by the waters fed,
On whose green bark, these well-known lines are read
“Sooner shall Xanthus leave his channel dry,
“Than Paris live without Oenone's by;”
Xanthus flow back! ye murm'ring streams decay,
Paris still lives, is faithless, far away.
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