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355 NOTICES OF BOOKS.
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Legends And Second Lyrics: Volume A Jboo...
I My longed It His home strai lay in g in was htway vain the still ; sun was what in ; the done he shadow . asked , for treasures
Once I staked all my heart ' s , We played—and he won . L Yes aid Cold ; in and , his smiling just coffin now , and . God I blest hav hel e , seen p me him !
While he is at rest , I am cursed still to live : —even Death loved him the best .
The Provence Among following _" and the is " longer Phili a gem p and poems ; perfect Mildred in in , this " thoug to our volume ht thinking , feeling , " _Tlie , , take and Legend the rhy le thm ad of , .
it _wliich lingers condense in the memory into a few like bars certain the p force hrases and of Mozart meaning and of Beethoven the whole , , as here a dozen lines reveal the sorrow and burden of an entire
life : — _EXPECTATION .
The The King hang ' s ing three terrace daug from , hters so the broad stood marble and on green the terrace , ,
There "Which And was the keeps youngest Princess the sea May Princess , and , Princess Gwendoline palace Alic . e , ;
Sig Time hed Princess throbs so May slow , " and Will it last heart much so quick longer ; ,
And oh ! how long is the day my in dying ; Weary am I of waiting makes and si the ghing irit , sick
For hope deferred sp . " But Princess Gwendoline smiled and kissed her : — than sister ?
" Am I not sadder you my The Expecting future ' s fathomless joy is a happy mine pai of n treasures ,
All countless hordes of possible pleasures , , Might bring their store to my feet in vain . "
Sig " hed So soon Princess , so soon Alice , is , as the the nig day dark ht li grew ght to fled nearer ! : —
And ohhow fast comes -morrow , " Who The hides terrible , , perhaps hour , I in wait her veil and . of dread sorrow !" ,
But Princess Gwendoline kissed her , sighing , — "It is onllife that can fear dying ;
y Those Possible who loss still means dread possible are not quite gain . forsaken ;
But not to fearbecause , all is taken , Is the loneliest , depth of human pain . "
We will not further forestal our readers' enjoyment of the book have alreadbenefited the of
itself . They and we y by ,, appearance
355 Notices Of Books.
355 NOTICES OF BOOKS .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Jan. 1, 1861, page 355, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01011861/page/67/
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