“There are no fields of amaranth on this side of the grave: there are no voices, O Rhodopè! that are not soon mute, however tuneful: there is no name, with whatever emphasis of passionate love repeated, of which the echo is not faint at last.”

—  Walter Savage Landor, Imaginary Conversations

"Aesop and Rhodopè", I.
Imaginary Conversations (1824-1829)

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