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Fables in Song

By Robert Lord Lytton
Lytton, Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton (1831-1891)

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VOL. I.
  
INTRODUCTORY.
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I. THE THISTLE.
  
MOTTO.
  
PRELUDE.
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PART I.
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PART II.
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PART III.
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PART IV.
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PART V.
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PART VI.
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II. POSSESSION.
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III. WHO'S IN THE RIGHT?
  
PRELUDE.
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PART I.
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PART II.
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IV. PREMATURITY.
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V. ANCIENTS AND MODERNS.
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VI. A PROVISION FOR LIFE.
  
To E. L.,
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VII. THE BLUE MOUNTAINS; OR, THE FAR.
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PART I.
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PART II.
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PART III.
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PART IV.
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VIII. A WHEAT-STALK; OR, THE NEAR.
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VI.
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VII.
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IX. THE ASS AND THE WAGTAIL.
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X. THE MISANTHROPE AND THE BIRD.
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XI. FORTUNE AND HER FOLLOWERS.
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XII. COMPOSURE.
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XIII. SIC ITUR.
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XIV. DIOGENES OR ALEXANDER?
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XV. A LEGEND.
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XVI. THE RAINPOOL.
  
PRELUDE.
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PART I.
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PART II.
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PART III.
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PART IV.
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XVII. CONTAGION.
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XVIII. AURORA CLAIR.
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XIX. LOST TREASURES.
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PART I.
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PART II.
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PART III.
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XX. CHASSÉ-CROISÉ.
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XXI. A PHILOSOPHER.
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PART I.
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PART II.
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XXII. ONLY A SHAVING.
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XXIII. THE LAST CRUISE OF THE ARROGANT; OR NO COMPROMISE.
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XXIV. KNOWLEDGE AND POWER.
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XXV. OPINION.
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PART I.
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PART II.
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PART III.
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XXVI. DE PROFUNDIS.
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XXVII. “GO ON, I'LL FOLLOW THEE!”
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III.
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XXVIII. THE EAGLE AND HIS COMPANIONS;
  
MONOLOGUE.
  
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VOL. II.
  
INTRODUCTORY.
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XXIX. FIAT JUSTITIA.
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CANTO THE FIRST.—THEORY.
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CANTO THE SECOND.—PRACTICE.
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CANTO THE THIRD.—EXPERIENCE.
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XXX. THE ROCK.
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XXXI. DEMOS.
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PART 1.
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PART II.
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PART III.
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XXXII. A PROMETHEUS UNBOUND.
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XXXIII. VALOUR.
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XXXIV. PAIN.
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XXXV. QUESTIONABLE CONSOLATION.
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XXXVI. FORGIVE AND FORGET.
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XXXVII. THE MOUNTAINS OF TIME.
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XXXVIII. CONSERVATION OF FORCE.
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XXXIX. HOMERIDES.
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XL. POINTS DE VUE—POINT DE VUE.
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XLI. PYRRHONISM,
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XLII. THE MOUNTAIN AND THE MARSH.
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XLIII. TELEOLOGY.
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XLIV. COGITO ERGO SUM.
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XLV. PHILOSOPHY OF THE LITTLE.
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XLVI. MASTER AT HOME.
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PART II.
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PART III.
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PART IV.
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XLVII. THE PLANE AND THE PENKNIFE.
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XLVIII. THE DRAG AND THE WHEEL.
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XLIX. A HAUGHTY SPIRIT BEFORE A FALL.
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PART II.
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PART III.
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PART IV.
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L. THE ROSE AND THE BRAMBLE.
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LI. DUCUNT VOLENTEM FATA: NOLENTEM TRAHUNT.
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LII. SUUM CUIQUE.
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LIII. THE TWO TRAVELLERS;
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LIV. AN ILL-ASSORTED COUPLE.
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LV. BETWEEN HAMMER AND ANVIL.
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LVI. HOMO HOMINI LUPUS.
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LVII. THE HORSE AND THE FLY.
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LVIII. ET CÆTERA ET CÆTERA.
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LIX. MONUMENTUM ÆRE PERENNIUS.
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LX. SANS SOUCI.
  
PROLOGUE
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PART I.
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PART II.
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PART III.
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PART IV.
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PART V.
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PART VI.
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PART VII.

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Then light as, when over the lakes and shores
Pure morn in a pearly mist hangs chill,
Comes a rhythmic echo of unseen oars
That is hail'd by some watcher at watch on the hill,
And faint as the breath of a forest asleep
When, dreaming, it dreams that the dawn is nigh,
All around the repose of that airie steep
On the live air trembled a fine sweet sigh.
And it hover'd and heaved, and rose and sank,
The light sound, fitfully sailing,
Like the droopt wing adrip in the bulrush bank
That a silver heron is trailing.
What was it? The lightest of lovely things,
Which, soon as in vain we have seen them,
Flit from us. Scarce aught but a pair of wings,
Two thrills with a kiss between them.
And “At last! at last! at last!”
(As the vision upfloated fast,
The soul of that Eagle thought)
“The gods my desire have granted.
For he cometh, the Spirit long sought,
Sigh'd for, and waited, and wanted.
O hither! O hither to me!
Whence art thou? What canst thou be,
Exquisite creature, fashion'd so finely
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Of tremulous petals whose pure veins glow
With gold and vermilion and azure, divinely
Thrill'd by thine own vivid beauty? as tho'
Thou wert out fresh blossoms and beams created
The brilliant beautiful body to be
Of each loveliest dream that hath in me waited,
Waiting wildly for thee, for thee!”
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