The woe of widowed Cypris and the groan
Of that sweet lady drooping o’er the bed
Where lay the form of lovely Adon dead,
Whose too, too early death she did bemoan
For that it left her loverless and lone
Amid the tears the Loves lamenting shed,
These dolors have in later poets bred
The melancholy music of thy moan,
O gentle Bion. On this languid string
Young Moschus, mourning thine own parting, played ;
Sweet Spenser, stroking its sad minors, made
His moan for Sidney, as for hapless King
Great Milton. Last the noble Laureate laid
The ‘In Memoriam’ as his offering.
(John Russell Hayes)
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