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Ballads for the Times

(Now first collected,) Geraldine, A Modern Pyramid, Bartenus, A Thousand Lines, and other poems. By Martin F. Tupper. A new Edition, enlarged and revised
Tupper, Martin Farquhar (1810-1889)

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Ballads for the Times, &c. &c.
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A Thousand Lines, etc.
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Hartenus, etc.
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Geraldine:
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SOME EARLY POEMS.
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CONTRASTED SONNETS.
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Six American Ballads.

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A Greeting.

It were not well to vex thee with my praises,
Yet am I quick to read thy gifts aright;
Loving, sincere, and wise,—in three best phases,
Young heart, I note thy characters of light:
Spirits are keen to make such instant guesses
For time is nothing to the Soul that lives;
Therefore my spirit thy good spirit blesses,
Therefore my Mind its cordial greeting gives,—
Its greeting?—of a moment, sad to tell,
For all my greeting is a true Farewell!
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