And the goal eternal won—
Till she’s drunk of the Letheian river,
And Phœbus and Hope have for ever
Mingled their beings in one.
This imitation of Ulalume, written by Mr. John H. Ingram, was published in 1863, when its author was in his teens. The little volume which contained it, entitled “Poems by Dalton Stone,” has been suppressed, and is now very scarce.
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LENORE.
I.
Ah! broken is the golden bowl! the spirit flown for ever!