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The Year's twelve daughters had in turn gone by	A
Of measured pace tho' varying mien all twelve	B
Some froward some sedater some adorn'd	C
For festival some reckless of attire	D
The snow had left the mountain top fresh flowers	E
Had withered in the meadow fig and prune	F
Hung wrinkling the last apple glow'd amid	G
Its freckled leaves and weary oxen blinkt	G
Between the trodden corn and twisted vine	H
Under whose bunches stood the empty crate	G
To creak ere long beneath them carried home	I
This was the season when twelve months before	J
O gentle Hamadryad true to love	K
Thy mansion thy dim mansion in the wood	G
Was blasted and laid desolate but none	L
Dared violate its precincts none dared pluck	M
The moss beneath it which alone remain'd	G
Of what was thine	H
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Old Thallinos sat mute	G
In solitary sadness The strange tale	N
Not until Rhaicos died but then the whole	O
Echion had related whom no force	P
Could ever make look back upon the oaks	Q
The father said Echion thou must weigh	R
Carefully and with steady hand enough	S
Although no longer comes the store as once	T
Of wax to burn all day and night upon	U
That hollow stone where milk and honey lie	A
So may the Gods so may the dead be pleas'd	G
Thallinos bore it thither in the morn	V
And lighted it and left it	G
	-
First of those	W
Who visited upon this solemn day	R
The Hamadryad's oak were Rhodope	X
And Acon of one age one hope one trust	G
Graceful was she as was the nymph whose fate	G
She sorrowed for he slender pale and first	G
Lapt by the flame of love his father's lands	Y
Were fertile herds lowed over them afar	Z
Now stood the two aside the hollow stone	A2
And lookt with stedfast eyes toward the oak	B2
Shivered and black and bare	C2
	-
May never we	D2
Love as they loved said Acon She at this	E2
Smiled for he said not what he meant to say	R
And thought not of its bliss but of its end	G
He caught the flying smile and blusht and vow'd	G
Nor time nor other power whereto the might	G
Of love hath yielded and may yield again	F2
Should alter his	G2
	-
The father of the youth	H2
Wanted not beauty for him wanted not	G
Song that could lift earth's weight from off his heart	G
Discretion that could guide him thro' the world	G
Innocence that could clear his way to heaven	L
Silver and gold and land not green before	J
The ancestral gate but purple under skies	I2
Bending far off he wanted for his heir	C2
	-
Fathers have given life but virgin heart	G
They never gave and dare they then control	O
Or check it harshly dare they break a bond	G
Girt round it by the holiest Power on high	A
	-
Acon was grieved he said grieved bitterly	D2
But Acon had complied 'twas dutiful	J2
	-
Crush thy own heart Man Man but fear to wound	G
The gentler that relies on thee alone	A2
By thee created weak or strong by thee	D2
Touch it not but for worship watch before	J
Its sanctuary nor leave it till are closed	G
The temple doors and the last lamp is spent	G
	-
Rhodope in her soul's waste solitude	G
Sate mournful by the dull resounding sea	D2
Often not hearing it and many tears	K2
Had the cold breezes hardened on her cheek	L2
Meanwhile he sauntered in the wood of oaks	Q
Nor shun'd to look upon the hollow stone	A2
That held the milk and honey nor to lay	R
His plighted hand where recently 'twas laid	G
Opposite hers when finger playfully	D2
Advanced and pusht back finger on each side	G
He did not think of this as she would do	G
If she were there alone	A2
	-
The day was hot	G
The moss invited him it cool'd his cheek	L2
It cool'd his hands he thrust them into it	G
And sank to slumber Never was there dream	M2
Divine as his He saw the Hamadryad	G
She took him by the arm and led him on	U
Along a valley where profusely grew	G
The smaller lilies with their pendent bells	N2
And hiding under mint chill drosera	G
The violet shy of butting cyclamen	U
The feathery fern and browser of moist banks	O2
Her offspring round her the soft strawberry	G
The quivering spray of ruddy tamarisk	P2
The oleander's light hair'd progeny	G
Breathing bright freshness in each other's face	Q2
And graceful rose bending her brow with cup	X
Of fragrance and of beauty boon for Gods	R2
The fragrance fill'd his breast with such delight	G
His senses were bewildered and he thought	G
He saw again the face he most had loved	G
He stopt the Hamadryad at his side	G
Now stood between then drew him farther off	S2
He went compliant as before but soon	U
Verdure had ceast altho' the ground was smooth	T2
Nothing was there delightful At this change	U2
He would have spoken but his guide represt	G
All questioning and said	G
	-
Weak youth what brought	G
Thy footstep to this wood my native haunt	G
My life long residence this bank where first	G
I sate with him the faithful now I know	U
Too late the faithful Rhaicos Haste thee home	I
Be happy if thou canst but come no more	G
Where those whom death alone could sever died	G
	-
He started up the moss whereon he slept	G
Was dried and withered deadlier paleness spread	G
Over his cheek he sickened and the sire	G
Had land enough it held his only son	U

Walter Savage Landor

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