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The music-lesson of Confucius, And Other Poems

Leland, Charles Godfrey (1824-1903)

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THE MUSIC-LESSON OF CONFUCIUS.

THE RETURN OF THE GODS.

DE APIBUS MORTEM DOMINÆ LUGENTIBUS

DE SPIRIDIONE EPISCOPO.

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POEMS OF PERFUMES.

EAU DE COLOGNE.

SWEET MARJORAM.

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1.

2.

3.

A THOUSAND YEARS AGO.

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LEGENDS OF THE BIRDS.

THE WONDERFUL CROW.

TO RISE WITH THEE!’

THE ORIGIN OF WHEAT.

SONG OF THE NEW YEAR.

THE WORLD AND THE WORLD.

THE ROMAN RING.

THE FALL OF THE TREES.

THE FOUNTAIN FAY.

A SPARK IN THE ASHES.

THE TREES OF LIFE.

THE TWO FRIENDS.

IN THE OLD TIME.

THE BRIDGE AND THE BROOK.

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LOUISE IN NORMANDY.

THE PROPHET.

A SONG WITHOUT AN END.

MOUNTAIN AND SEA.

FROST PICTURES.

‘PERSEVERANDO.’

AMERICA AND COLUMBIA.

THE LANGUAGE OF THE SEA.

THE DIFFERENCE.

HOW THE ENGINEER DIED AT DESJARDINS.’

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SONGS OF THE AMERICAN WAR OF EMANCIPATION, 1861–1865.

THE KNIGHT AND THE DRAGON.

THE PROCLAMATION.

WHEN THE CAPTAIN IS READY TO RIDE.

THE BEGINNING OF THE END.

REAL INCIDENTS. BLUE AND GREY.

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THE PROPHET.

THE prophet said: ‘All mysteries
Unto me are displayed,
Yet not the Eagle's way in air
Or a man's who woos a maid!

Then I said to myself, ‘I soon will solve
This subtle mystery;’
So I asked the man and the maid, but they
Knew even less than he.