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A Villanelle / O singer of Persephone!
In the dim meadows desolate / Dost thou remember Sicily?
Still through the ivy flits the bee / Where Amaryllis lies in state;
O Singer of Persephone!
Simaetha calls on Hecate / And hears the wild dogs at the gate;
Dost thou remember Sicily?
Still by the light and laughing sea / Poor Polypheme bemoans his fate;
O Singer of Persephone!
And still in boyish rivalry / Young Daphnis challenges his mate;
Dost thou remember Sicily?
Slim Lacon keeps a goat for thee, / For thee the jocund shepherds wait;
O Singer of Persephone!
Dost thou remember Sicily?