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Elegies and memorials

By A. and L. [i.e. L. C. Shore]

Shore, Louisa (1824-1895)

I. “Bianca, Bella, Buona, Beata.”

II. “Beneath the Cypress' Gloomy Shade.”

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II. “Beneath the Cypress' Gloomy Shade.”

Beneath the cypress' gloomy shade,
Deep in a still and leafy glade,
In peace my grey-haired sire is laid,
To wake on earth no more.
None knows save I his quiet tomb;
Each morn with saddened heart I come,
And gaze upon his narrow home,
Till grief's full cup runs o'er.

These lines were written by her who is the subject of the first poem in the book, “Elegies.”