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ALCIBIADES ARCHIBALD GEIKIE beauty bitter bless bloom breath bright CAMBRIDGE CAPRERA CHARLES KINGSLEY cheer Claud cold Crown 8vo DAVID MASSON dear death delight Dinan dream duc d'Orléans earth echo English eyes faint Fcap feeling feet flowers Foolscap 8vo footsteps fresh Garaye Garaye's gateway gaze gentle GEORGE WILSON Gertrude gilt leaves glad gloom God's golden gone graceful grief hand happy hath heart Heaven helpless HENRY KINGSLEY HIPPIAS hope human KINGSLEY LA GARAYE la Motte-Piquet lady leaps Life's light lingering lips lonely Love's man's moan morning mournful neath never night noble o'er pain pale pity pleasant POEMS Portrait prison restless round Royal 16mo Ruins shade shadow shining sigh smile song sorrow soul sound suffering sweet tears tender thee thou thought trembling UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH voice walls weary weep WESTWARD HO wild words yearning young youth
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