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The Grave of Orpheus
The story about the suicide of Orpheus, after the second loss of Eurydice, and about the nightingales that sing over his tomb, is in Pausanias.
The second time the sunless way,
And found his twice-lost love, content
'Mid songless shades to be as they;
But the songs died not—all the May
And all through June they flood the vales,
And still on Orpheus' tomb, men say,
Most sweetly sing the nightingales.
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