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Written for THE PORTFOLIO SOCIETY January	A
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Subject given Light and Shade	B
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She stepped upon Sicilian grass	C
Demeter's daughter fresh and fair	D
A child of light a radiant lass	C
And gamesome as the morning air	D
The daffodils were fair to see	A
They nodded lightly on the lea	A
Persephone Persephone	E
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Lo one she marked of rarer growth	F
Than orchis or anemone	E
For it the maiden left them both	F
And parted from her company	E
Drawn nigh she deemed it fairer still	G
And stooped to gather by the rill	G
The daffodil the daffodil	G
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What ailed the meadow that it shook	H
What ailed the air of Sicily	E
She wondered by the brattling brook	H
And trembled with the trembling lea	E
The coal black horses rise they rise	I
O mother mother low she cries	I
Persephone Persephone	E
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O light light light she cries farewell	J
The coal black horses wait for me	E
O shade of shades where I must dwell	J
Demeter mother far from thee	E
Ah fated doom that I fulfil	J
Ah fateful flower beside the rill	J
The daffodil the daffodil	J
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What ails her that she comes not home	K
Demeter seeks her far and wide	L
And gloomy browed doth ceaseless roam	K
From many a morn till eventide	L
My life immortal though it be	E
Is nought she cries for want of thee	E
Persephone Persephone	E
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Meadows of Enna let the rain	E
No longer drop to feed your rills	I
Nor dew refresh the fields again	E
With all their nodding daffodils	I
Fade fade and droop O lilied lea	E
Where thou dear heart wert reft from me	E
Persephone Persephone	E
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She reigns upon her dusky throne	E
Mid shades of heroes dread to see	E
Among the dead she breathes alone	E
Persephone Persephone	E
Or seated on the Elysian hill	J
She dreams of earthly daylight still	J
And murmurs of the daffodil	J
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A voice in Hades soundeth clear	M
The shadows mourn and fill below	J
It cries Thou Lord of Hades hear	N
And let Demeter's daughter go	J
The tender corn upon the lea	E
Droops in her goddess gloom when she	E
Cries for her lost Persephone	E
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From land to land she raging flies	I
The green fruit falleth in her wake	O
And harvest fields beneath her eyes	I
To earth the grain unripened shake	O
Arise and set the maiden free	E
Why should the world such sorrow dree	E
By reason of Persephone	E
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He takes the cleft pomegranate seeds	I
Love eat with me this parting day	L
Then bids them fetch the coal black steeds	I
Demeter's daughter wouldst away	L
The gates of Hades set her free	E
She will return full soon saith he	E
My wife my wife Persephone	E
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Low laughs the dark king on his throne	E
I gave her of pomegranate seeds	I
Demeter's daughter stands alone	E
Upon the fair Eleusian meads	I
Her mother meets her Hail saith she	E
And doth our daylight dazzle thee	E
My love my child Persephone	E
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What moved thee daughter to forsake	O
Thy fellow maids that fatal morn	E
And give thy dark lord power to take	O
Thee living to his realm forlorn	E
Her lips reply without her will	J
As one addressed who slumbereth still	J
The daffodil the daffodil	J
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Her eyelids droop with light oppressed	L
And sunny wafts that round her stir	E
Her cheek upon her mother's breast	L
Demeter's kisses comfort her	E
Calm Queen of Hades art thou she	E
Who stepped so lightly on the lea	E
Persephone Persephone	E
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When in her destined course the moon	E
Meets the deep shadow of this world	L
And laboring on doth seem to swoon	E
Through awful wastes of dimness whirled	L
Emerged at length no trace hath she	E
Of that dark hour of destiny	E
Still silvery sweet Persephone	E
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The greater world may near the less	I
And draw it through her weltering shade	L
But not one biding trace impress	I
Of all the darkness that she made	L
The greater soul that draweth thee	E
Hath left his shadow plain to see	E
On thy fair face Persephone	E
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Demeter sighs but sure 'tis well	J
The wife should love her destiny	E
They part and yet as legends tell	J
She mourns her lost Persephone	E
While chant the maids of Enna still	J
O fateful flower beside the rill	J
The daffodil the daffodil	J

Jean Ingelow

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