Edward Cracroft Lefroy: His Life and Poems including a Reprint of Echoes from Theocritus: By Wilfred Austin Gill: With a Critical Estimate of the Sonnets by the late John Addington Symonds |
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THE TOMB OF DIOCLES
Here, stranger, pause, and take a moment's ease
With pleasant thinking on a good man dead.
This marble marks the tomb of Diocles;
Say not that virtue sleeps unhallowèd!
The grateful tribes delight with arts like these
To deck the pillow of a noble head.
Nor are these all; beneath yon arching trees
The merriest chorus of the spring is led.
For on a day from country cots around
Come troops of ruddy children fair of face,
And forming rings about this holy ground,
Contest the guerdon of a bright embrace;
And whoso kisseth with the deftest grace
Goes homeward to his mother, happy, crowned.
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