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Title: Collected Poems
In Two Volumes, Vol. II

Author: Austin Dobson

Release Date: January 17, 2008 [EBook #24334]

Language: English

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COLLECTED POEMS

BY
AUSTIN DOBSON

IN TWO VOLUMES
VOL. II.

_Majores majora sonent_

NEW YORK
DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY
PUBLISHERS

_Copyright, 1895,_
BY DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY

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_All rights reserved._

University Press:
JOHN WILSON AND SON, CAMBRIDGE, U. S. A.

_"For old sake's sake!" 'Twere hard to choose_
_Words fitter for an old-world Muse_
_Than these, that in their cadence bring_
_Faint fragrance of the posy-ring,_
_And charms that rustic lovers use._

_The long day lengthens, and we lose_
_The first pale flush, the morning hues,--_
_Ah! but the back-look, lingering,_
_For old sake's sake!_

That _we retain. Though Time refuse_
_To lift the veil on forward views,_
_Despot in most, he is not King_
_Of those kind memories that cling_
_Around his travelled avenues_
_For old sake's sake!_

"_Qui n'a pas l'esprit de son age_
_De son age a tout le malheur._"
Voltaire.

CONTENTS.

Page
AT THE SIGN OF THE LYRE:--
The Ladies of St. James's 3
The Old Sedan Chair 6
To an Intrusive Butterfly 9
The Cure's Progress 11
The Masque of the Months 13
Two Sermons 17
"Au Revoir" 19
The Carver and the Caliph 26
To an Unknown Bust in the British Museum 29
Molly Trefusis 32
At the Convent Gate