To ---- IX (Botta)

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To ---- IX by Anne Lynch Botta from Poems (1848)

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      They may talk of the eloquence famous in story;
            Of the names that through ages continue to shine;
        There never has fallen more true oratory
            From the lips of a mortal, than falleth from thine.
 
        With pathos and passion, oh! not more replete
            Is the bard, though at Helicon's fountain he sips;
        Nor his accents more glowing, persuasive, and sweet,
            Though the bees of Hymettus had fed on his lips.

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