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After Paradise or Legends of Exile

With Other Poems: By Robert, Earl of Lytton (Owen Meredith)
Lytton, Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton (1831-1891)

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LEGENDS OF EXILE.
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FIRST SERIES.
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SECOND SERIES.
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L'ENVOI.
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POEMS.

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4.

The Nightingale beheld her, and averr'd
That she was fairest of the fair. He said,
“Fair crimson-wingèd creature, be a bird!
And I with thee, and none but thee, will wed.”
His amorous song the Rose resentful heard,
And shook her head.
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