Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THREE MAIDS, by ACHILLE MILLIEN



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THREE MAIDS, by                    
First Line: It is the hour when day in beauty dies
Last Line: "-- ""'tis anguish,"" sighs the third, ""and hence I die!"
Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Love; Dead, The


IT is the hour when day in beauty dies
-- Three virgin forms are limned upon the sun;
One greets with song the twilight's halcyon;
Adream, the second smiles; the other sighs.

One says: "O Sisters, what may Love imply?"
The second smiles: "I know not. Once I read:
'Without Love's ardent flame the soul is dead.'"
-- "'Tis anguish," sighs the third, "and hence I die!"





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