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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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L'ENVOI.
  
AD ÆSOPUM.
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POEMS.

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With laughter light again,
“Thou hast them,” that perfidious Wind replied,
“And I will show thee how to use them.” Then
He breathed upon the Rose, and, undenied,
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Pluckt from her one by one her petals fair;
But, soon dissatisfied
With his sweet theft, along the thankless air
He tost the stolen petals here and there,
And off he hied.
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