An expense of eyesight in a waste of time . . . but if anyone fails to detect the deep thematic coherence between S1 and S2 I''ll set the hounds of spring on them.
Where is the world we roved, Ned Bunn?
And Marion, cow-eyed,
The lovely Mary Morison
Wearing white for Easter-tide.
Between the acres of the rye
Below the gallows’ tree! -
In shards the sylvan vases lie,
At Abdon under Clee.
Herman Melville :To Ned
W.H. Auden: Song of the Master and Boatswain
R. Burns: Mary Morison
A.E. Housman: Loveliest of Trees SL II
W. Shakespeare: It Was A Lover and His Lass
Thomas Hood: The Last Man
Herman Melville: The Ravaged Villa
A.E. Housman: Fancy’s Knell LP XLI
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