Endymion

But though her face was clear as infant's eyes,
Though she stood smiling o'er the sacrifice,
The Poet wept at her so piteous fate,
Wept that such beauty should be desolate:
So in fine wrath some golden sounds he won,
And gave meek Cynthia her Endymion.

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Southern poet and musician, known for lyrical verse celebrating the marshlands of Georgia and musical prosody.

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