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ROBERT SOUTHEY,

AUTHOR OF "THALABA," "MADOC," ETC.

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY JOHN GILBERT.

LIBRARY

OF IM

UNIVERSITY

CALIFORNIA

LONDON:

GEORGE ROUTLEDGE AND SONS,

BROADWAY, LUDGATE HILL.

NEW YORK: 416, BROOME STREET.

1866.

DEDICATORY SONNET

ΤΟ

HIS WIFE.

WITH way-worn feet, a pilgrim woe-begone,
Life's upward road I journeyed many a day,
And hymning many a sad yet soothing lay
Beguiled my wandering with the charms of song.
Lonely my heart, and rugged was my way,
Yet often plucked I, as I passed along,

The wild and simple flowers of Poesy;
And as beseemed the wayward Fancy's child,

Entwined each ramdom weed that pleased mine eys. Accept the wreath, BELOVED! it is wild

And rudely garlanded; yet scorn not thou The humble offering, where the sad rue weaves 'Mid gayer flowers its intermingled leaves,

And I have twined the myrtle for thy brow.

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