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Edgar Allan Poe1809–1849

Edgar Allan Poe on beauty

Thy Naiad airs have brought me home
To the glory that was Greece
And the grandeur that was Rome.

Edgar Allan Poe

To Helen, st. 2 (1831; these lines as revised in 1843)

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