Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, DECIMA: 2, by GEORGE SANTAYANA



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First Line: What frail sympathy long past
Last Line: Know to pluck his starry crown.
Subject(s): Farewell


What frail sympathy long past
Linked a lost name to my name
On this page? What parting came,
That no pang of it should last?
The leaf torn, the volume cast
To the hawkers of the town
Tell the tale; till bending down
You redeemed the rumpled sheaf,
You who from man's dust and grief
Know to pluck his starry crown.





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