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DIRCE by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR

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First Line: STAND CLOSE AROUND, YE STYGIAN SET
Last Line: THAT HE IS OLD AND SHE A SHADE.
Subject(s): CHARON; STYX (RIVER);
STAND close around, ye Stygian set,
With Dirce in one boat conveyed!
Or Charon, seeing, may forget
That he is old and she a shade.



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