Her Initials

Upon a poet's page I wrote Of old two letters of her name; Part seemed she of the effulgent thought Whence that high singer's rapture came. - When now I turn the leaf the same Immortal light illumes the lay, But from the letters of her name The radiance has died away!

1869.

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