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Thomas Humphry Ward, ed. The English Poets. 1880–1918.rnVol. V. Browning to Rupert Brooke

Andrew Lang (1844–1912)

The Last Chance

WITHIN the streams, Pausanias saith,

That down Cocytus valley flow,

Girding the grey domain of Death,

The spectral fishes come and go;

The ghosts of trout flit to and fro.

Persephone, fulfil my wish,

And grant that in the shades below

My ghost may land the ghosts of fish.