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The Bibelot
VOLUME I
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From The Bibelot, A Reprint of Poetry and Prose for Book Lovers, chosen in part from scarce editions and sources not generally known, Volume I, Number V, Testimonial Edition, Edited and Originally Published by Thomas B. Mosher, Portland, Maine; Wm. Wise & Co.; New York; 1895; p. 157.
CXIX
This is the dust of Timas, whom Persephone’s dark chamber received, dead before her wedding; when she perished, all her fellows dressed with sharpened steel the lovely tresses of their heads.
This dust was Timas’; ere her bridal hour
She lies in Proserpina’s gloomy bower;
Her virgin playmates from each lovely head
Cut with sharp steel their locks, their strew-
ments for the dead.
SIR CHARLES A. ELTON.
This is the dust of Timas, whom unwed
Persephone locked in her darksome bed:
For her the maids who were her fellow shore
Their curls, and to her tomb this tribute bore.
J. A. SYMONDS.