Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864). Verse: 'Past ruin'd Ilion Helen lives'. William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. 1909. The Book of Georgian Verse

William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Georgian Verse. 1909.

Verse: ‘Past ruin’d Ilion Helen lives’

By Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864)


PAST ruin’d Ilion Helen lives,
Alcestis rises from the shades;
Verse calls them forth; ’tis verse that gives
Immortal youth to mortal maids.
Soon shall Oblivion’s deepening veil	5
Hide all the peopled hills you see,
The gay, the proud, while lovers hail
These many summers you and me.