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Edward Cracroft Lefroy: His Life and Poems

including a Reprint of Echoes from Theocritus: By Wilfred Austin Gill: With a Critical Estimate of the Sonnets by the late John Addington Symonds
Lefroy, Edward Cracroft (1855-1891)

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ECHOES FROM THEOCRITUS
  
[dedication]
 I. 
I BATTUS
 II. 
II A SHEPHERD MAIDEN
 III. 
III DAPHNIS
 IV. 
IV A SICILIAN NIGHT
 V. 
V A SUMMER DAY IN OLD SICILY
 VI. 
VISIMAETHA, I
 VII. 
VII SIMAETHA, II
 VIII. 
VIII THE GOATHERD IN LOVE
 IX. 
IX THE LOVE-SPELL
 X. 
X SIMICHIDAS
 XI. 
XI AGEANAX
 XII. 
XII COMATAS
 XIII. 
XIII AT THE SHRINE OF PAN
 XIV. 
XIV AT THE FARM OF PHRASIDAMUS
 XV. 
XV THE SINGING-MATCH, I
 XVI. 
XVI THE SINGING-MATCH, II
 XVII. 
XVII THE SINGING-MATCH, III
 XVIII. 
XVIII MENALCAS
 XIX. 
XIX THE TOMB OF DIOCLES
 XX. 
XX HYLAS
 XXI. 
XXI THE TUNNY-FISHERS
 XXII. 
XXII THE YOUTH OF HERACLES
 XXIII. 
XXIII THE FLUTE OF DAPHNIS
 XXIV. 
XXIV A SACRED GROVE
 XXV. 
XXV A SYLVAN REVEL
 XXVI. 
XXVI THYRSIS
 XXVII. 
XXVII CLEONICUS
 XXVIII. 
XXVIII THE EPITAPH OF EUSTHENES
 XXIX. 
XXIX THE MONUMENT OF CLEITA
 XXX. 
XXX THE GRAVE OF HIPPONAX
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MISCELLANEOUS SONNETS
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LYRICAL POEMS

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A SYLVAN REVEL

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Epigram v.

What ho! my shepherds, sweet it were
To fill with song this leafy glade.
Bring harp and flute. The gods have made
An hour for music. Daphnis there
Shall give the note a jocund blare
From out his horn. The rest will aid
Wiih fifes and drums, and charm the shade,
And rout the dusky wings of care.
We'll pipe to fox and wolf and bear.
We'll wake the wood with rataplan,
Fetch every beast from every lair,
Make every creature dance who can,
Set every Satyr's hoof in air,
And tickle both the feet of Pan!
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