Versos English Rennell Rodd Lais

English poem

Lais

by (1858–1941)

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I that through the land of Hellas Laughed in triumph and disdain, Lais, of whose open porches All the love-struck youth were fain, Bring the mirror once I gazed in, Cyprian, at thy shrine to vow, Since I see not there what once was, And I would not what is now.