THE POETICAL WORKS OF AUBREY

DE VERE.

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I. THE SEARCH AFTER PROSERPINE, AND OTHER POEMS, CLASSICAL AND MEDITATIVE.

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III. ALEXANDER THE GREAT, SAINT THOMAS OF CANTERBURY, AND OTHER POEMS.

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MAY CAROLS. Third Edition, Enlarged and Illustrated. (Burns and Oates.)

BY THE LATE SIR AUBREY DE VERE, BART. MARY TUDOR: AN HISTORICAL DRAMA. (G. Bell & Son.) JULIAN THE APOSTATE, AND THE DUKE OF MERCIA. (Pickering.)

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TO THE

VENERABLE BEDE

'Mid quiet vale or city lulled by night
Well-pleased the wanderer, wakeful on his bed,
Hears from far Alps on fitful breeze the sound
Of torrents murmuring down their rocky glens,
Strange voice from distant regions, alien climes :-
Should these far echoes from thy legend-roll
Delight of loftier years, these echoes faint,
Thus waken, thus make calm, one restless heart
In our distempered day, to thee the praise,
Voice of past times, O Venerable Bede!