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Four letters rudely in the stone were wrought,And could be read, ‘ A Boy,’ * but yet no name.‘See,’ said Alcestis, ‘how the peak has caughtAlready daylight: soon ’*t will be a-flame.It is not yet too late!Mount where the bright flowers wait:Flowers that, when thou art dead, will ever be the same !’ po “T tried the cliff, and climbed: my hands weresore, And I was tired: yet I strained up the height.The little maidens shouted, ‘ Yet once more !’-I tried: I tried: I could not reach them quite.And ah! behold on high,Ah! all across the sky,The day was come, at last, and dawn was lost in light.
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