Florien A Tragedy in Five Acts, and Other Poems. By Herman Charles Merivale |
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| I. | I.—INVOCATION TO CERES. |
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I.—INVOCATION TO CERES.
Goddess of the golden horn,
Plenty's Queen when man was born,
Hear us where we bend the knee
To thine high divinity:
Hear the infant's hungering cry,
Mothers' prayer no more deny:
Shed thy store o'er field and town,
Ceres, send thy blessing down.
Plenty's Queen when man was born,
Hear us where we bend the knee
To thine high divinity:
Hear the infant's hungering cry,
Mothers' prayer no more deny:
Shed thy store o'er field and town,
Ceres, send thy blessing down.
Want and Woe stalk hand in hand
Through the parched and blighted land;
Poppies o'er the leaguered plain
Kiss to death the poisoned grain,
And the wavy sheaves of gold
Wither in their spectral fold:
Wear again thine harvest-crown,
Ceres, send thy blessing down.
Through the parched and blighted land;
Poppies o'er the leaguered plain
Kiss to death the poisoned grain,
And the wavy sheaves of gold
Wither in their spectral fold:
Wear again thine harvest-crown,
Ceres, send thy blessing down.
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