The Certain Hour (Dizain des Poëtes) Read online

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  And men unborn will read of Heloise, And Ruth, and Rosamond, and Semele, When none remembers your name's melody Or rhymes your name, enregistered with these.

  And will my name wake moods as amorous As that of Abelard or Launcelot Arouses? be recalled when Pyramus And Tristram are unrhymed of and forgot?-- Time's laughter answers, who accords to us More gracious fields, wherein we harvest--what?

  JOHN CHARTERIS. _Torrismond's Envoi, in Ashtaroth's Lackey_.