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‘A sad and subtle little satire on the vaunted permanence of love and fame’ (Orr [1896], p. 293), published in DRL. 1849 titles the two sections ‘Fame’ and ‘Love’. In the first, a poet’s grave is decaying and overgrown; ‘minute gray lichens …/Have softened down the crisp-cut name and date!’ (7–8). In the second ‘the year’s done with!’ and snows quench ‘June’s fever’ (9, 15–16); the repeated ‘(Love me for ever!)’ is, RB said in 1889, ‘[a] mournful comment on the short duration of the conventional “For Ever!” (Browning [1914], p. 176). Gray’s ‘Elegy’ and *Byron’s ‘Churchill’s Grave’ are sources or analogues (L 2.250).

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‘A sad and subtle little satire on the vaunted permanence of love and fame’ (Orr [1896], p. 293), published in DRL. 1849 titles the two sections ‘Fame’ and ‘Love’. In the first, a poet’s grave is decaying and overgrown; ‘minute gray lichens …/Have softened down the crisp-cut name and date!’ (7–8). In the second ‘the year’s done with!’ and snows quench ‘June’s fever’ (9, 15–16); the repeated ‘(Love me for ever!)’ is, RB said in 1889, ‘[a] mournful comment on the short duration of the conventional “For Ever!” (Browning [1914], p. 176). Gray’s ‘Elegy’ and *Byron’s ‘Churchill’s Grave’ are sources or analogues (L 2.250).