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Grass of Parnassus
Contents:
Grass of Parnassus
Deeds of men:
Seekers for a city
The white Pacha
Midnight, January 25, 1886

Advance, Australia
Colonel Burnaby
Melville and Coghill

Rhodocleia:
To Rhodocleia--on her melancholy singing
Ave:
Clevedon church
Twilight on Tweed *
Metempsychosis *
Lost in
Hades *
A star in the night *
A sunset on yarrow *
Another way

Hesperothen:
The seekers for Phaeacia
A song of Phaeacia
The departure from
Phaeacia
A ballad of departure
They hear the sirens for the second
time
Circe's Isle revisited
The limit of lands
Verses:
Martial in town
April on Tweed
Tired of towns
Scythe song

Pen and ink
A dream
The singing rose
A review in rhyme

Colinette *
A sunset of Watteau *
Nightingale weather *
Love
and wisdom *
Good-bye *
An old prayer *
A la belle Helene *

Sylvie et Aurelie *
A lost path *
The shade of Helen *
Sonnets:
She
Herodotus in Egypt
Gerard de Nerval *
Ronsard *
Love's
miracle *
Dreams *
Two sonnets of the sirens *
Translations:
Hymn to the winds *
Moonlight *
The grave and the rose *
A

vow to heavenly Venus *
Of his lady's old age *
Shadows of his
lady *
April *
An old tune *
Old loves *
A lady of high degree
*
Iannoula *
The milk-white doe *
Heliodore
The prophet

Lais
Clearista
The fisherman's tomb
Of his death
Rhodope
To
a girl
To the ships
A late convert
The limit of life
To Daniel
Elzevir
The Last Chance
To E. M. S.
Prima dicta mihi, summa dicenda Camena.
The years will pass, and hearts will range,
YOU conquer Time, and
Care, and Change.
Though Time doth still delight to shed
The dust
on many a younger head;
Though Care, oft coming, hath the guile

From younger lips to steal the smile;
Though Change makes younger
hearts wax cold,
And sells new loves for loves of old,
Time,
Change, nor Care, hath learned the art
To fleck your hair, to chill
your heart,
To touch your tresses with the snow,
To mar your mirth
of long ago.
Change, Care, nor Time, while life endure,
Shall spoil
our ancient friendship sure,
The love which flows from sacred springs,

In 'old unhappy far-off things,'
From sympathies in grief and joy,

Through all the years of man and boy.
Therefore, to you, the rhymes I strung
When even this 'brindled' head
was young
I bring, and later rhymes I bring
That flit upon as weak a
wing,

But still for you, for yours, they sing!
Many of the verses and translations in this volume were published first
in Ballads and Lyrics of Old France (1872). Though very sensible that
they have the demerits of imitative and even of undergraduate rhyme, I
print them again because people I like have liked them. The rest are of
different dates, and lack (though doubtless they need) the excuse of
having been written, like some of the earlier pieces, during College
Lectures. I would gladly have added to this volume what other more or
less serious rhymes I have written, but circumstances over which I have

no control have bound them up with Ballades, and other toys of that
sort.
It may be as well to repeat in prose, what has already been said in verse,
that Grass of Parnassus, the pretty Autumn flower, grows in the
marshes at the foot of the Muses' Hill, and other hills, not at the top by
any means.
Several of the versions from the Greek Anthology have been published
in the Fortnightly Review, and the sonnet on Colonel Burnaby
appeared in Punch. These, with pieces from other serials, are reprinted
by the courteous permission of the Editors.
The verses that were published in Ballades and Lyrics, and in Ballads
and Verses Vain (Charles Scribner's Sons, New York), are marked in
the contents with an asterisk.
GRASS OF PARNASSUS.
Pale star that by the lochs of Galloway,
In wet green places 'twixt the