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Sidney Lanier

Presenting a portrait-bust of the author.


Since you, rare friend! have tied my living tongue
 With thanks more large than man e’er said or sung,
So let the dumbness of this image be
 My eloquence, and still interpret me.


Baltimore, 1880.

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From Poems | Written c. 1880

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