Blythe bell, that calls to bridal halls, Tolls deep a darker day; The very shower that feeds the flower Weeps also its decay.
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Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864) was an English poet and prose writer whose "Imaginary Conversations" and lyric poems are marked by classical restraint and epigrammatic wit. His poem "Rose Aylmer" is one of the most admired short poems in English.
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