Fuess and Stearns, comps. The Little Book of Society Verse. 1922.
By. Walter Savage LandorVerse
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Alcestis rises from the shades;
Verse calls them forth; ’t is verse that gives
Immortal youth to mortal maids.
Hide all the peopled hills you see,
The gay, the proud, while lovers hail
These many summers you and me.