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      • When high Zeus first peopled earth
      • Methinks my love to thee doth grow
      • Thou must not leave me
      • It was deep April, and the morn
      • Apollo and the Muses taught thee not
      • There comes a change in her breath
      • A girl
      • Our myrtle is in flower
      • She lies asleep: I, watching, do not dare
      • Mine is the eddying foam and the broken current
      • Sweet of my poet how sweet are the eyes, the eye-lids
      • Though I sing high, and chaunt above her
      • Have you seen the olives at set of sun
      • Shall there ever be a morn
      • I love her with the seasons, with the winds
      • O sweet, all sweet, - the body as the shyer
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Thou must not leave me

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    ACHERON

    THOU must not leave me ! 
    Though 'tis a mournful land 
    Through which I travel, 
    I will but guide thee, hand in hand. 
    To mysteries thou must in art unravel. 
    When thou a little way art gone, 
    Ere the grove's steep descent 
    Darkening can grieve thee, 
    Thou backward to the sweet stars shalt be sent ; 
    While I plod on 
    To Acheron. 

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