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 Lost Echo sits amid the voiceless mountains,
 And feeds her grief.  
 Lost Echo sits amid the voiceless mountains,
 And feeds her grief. 
 Sweetest Echo, sweetest nymph, that liv'st unseen
 Within thy airy shell,
  By slow Meander's margent green,
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 Sweetest Echo, sweetest nymph, that liv'st unseen
 Within thy airy shell,
  By slow Meander's margent green,
   And in the violet-embroidered vale. 
And more than echoes talk along the walls.
And more than echoes talk along the walls.
 Let echo, too, perform her part,
 Prolonging every note with art;
  And in a low expiring strain,
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 Let echo, too, perform her part,
 Prolonging every note with art;
  And in a low expiring strain,
   Play all the comfort o'er again. 
 I came to the place of my birth and cried: "The friends of my 
youth, where are they?"--and an read more 
 I came to the place of my birth and cried: "The friends of my 
youth, where are they?"--and an echo answered, "Where are they?" 
 I heard . . .
 . . . the great echo flap
  And buffet round the hills read more 
 I heard . . .
 . . . the great echo flap
  And buffet round the hills from bluff to bluff. 
 Even Echo speaks not on these radiant moors.
   - Barry Cornwall (pseudonym of Bryan Waller Procter),  
 Even Echo speaks not on these radiant moors.
   - Barry Cornwall (pseudonym of Bryan Waller Procter), 
 Hark! to the hurried question of Despair
 "Where is my child?"--An echo answers--
  "Where?"  
 Hark! to the hurried question of Despair
 "Where is my child?"--An echo answers--
  "Where?" 
 Multitudinous echoes awoke and died in the distance.
 . . . .
  And, when the echoes had read more 
 Multitudinous echoes awoke and died in the distance.
 . . . .
  And, when the echoes had ceased, like a sense of pain was the 
silence.