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Chapter I

POEMS AND LYRICS OF THE JOY OF EARTH

POEMS AND LYRICS OF THE JOY OF EARTH

BY GEORGE MEREDITH

London MACMILLAN AND CO. 1883

Printed by R. & R. Clark, Edinburgh.

INSCRIBED TO JAMES COTTER MORISON

* * * * Antistans mihi milibus trecentis.

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CONTENTS.

1

A BALLAD OF FAIR LADIES IN REVOLT.

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TIME AND SENTIMENT.

Phoebus with Admetus.

The measure runs:

Melampus.

Love in the Valley:

Trochaic, variable in short syllables according to stress of the accent.

A sketch of this poem appeared in a volume published many years back, now extinct.

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