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Life and Phantasy

by William Allingham: With frontispiece by Sir John E. Millais: A design by Arthur H. Hughes and a song for voice and piano forte
Allingham, William (1824-1889)

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[dedication]
  
[Reader, if herein you find]
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NATURAL MIRACLE.
  
A SONG.
  
TO THEODORA.
  
LOVE'S INSIGHT.
  
THE LOOK OF LOVE.
  
REVERIE.
  
THE CUPIDS.
  
TO PHILIPPINA.
  
WE TWO.
  
A WIFE.
  
A SAD SONG.
  
LOVE REMEMBERED.
  
HALLOWED MEMORY.
  
RESEMBLANCE.
  
LOVE'S GIFTS.
  
LONG DELAYED.
  
THE GLANCE.
  
LOVE'S FEARS.
  
TO BEATA.
  
THE HAPPY MAN.
  
A DAY OF DAYS.
  
GEORGE;
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SHADOWINGS.
  
MEA CULPA.
  
DANGER.
  
CARTAPHILUS.
  
CROSS-EXAMINATION.
  
RECOVERY.
  
A REBUKE.
  
A SINGER.
  
TO A BLIND FRIEND.
  
BONA DEA.
  
THE MESSENGER.
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PLACES, ETC.
  
STRATFORD-ON-AVON.
  
WEIMAR.
  
MOONRISE.
  
W. W.
  
THREE SISTERS OF HAWORTH.
  
IN THE TRAIN.
  
EXPRESS
  
THE STOLEN PATH.
  
PER CONTRA.
  
PLACES AND MEN.
  
IN DREAM-WORLD.
  
THE OLD TUNE.
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BRIDEGROOM'S PARK.
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I.—FROM THE HIGHWAY.
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II.—BY THE POND.
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III.—THROUGH THE WOOD.
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IV.—MOSSGROWN.
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BERRIES.
  
[“Why, yes—we've pass'd a pleasant day]
  
[Everything passes and vanishes]
  
[This patchwork world of things confus'dly named]
  
[In a sad infernal glen]
  
TWELVE SEVENS.
  
[Leave me but quiet for a thousand years!]
  
[Man's found by his event. Not whirlwind Chance]
  
[“New Heavens and New Earth,”—must all be new-created?]
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FAIRIES, ETC.
  
VIVANT!
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PRINCE BRIGHTKIN.
  
Dawn.
  
Forenoon.
  
The Noon Call.
  
Near Sunset.
  
After Sunset.
  
TWO FAIRIES IN A GARDEN.
  
FIRESIDE MAGIC.
  
THE LYRIC MUSE.
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TO PLUTUS ETC.
  
A WEEK-DAY HYMN.
  
“QUE SÇAIS-JE?”
  
AN INVITATION.
  
IN A BOOK OF MAXIMS.
  
A MODERN PLEASAUNCE.
  
EQUALITY AT HOME.
  
GRAPES, WINE, AND VINEGAR.
  
THE HONEST FARMER.
  
THE BLACKSMITH.
  
JOHN CLODD.
  
THE MAGIC CAP.
  
THE LION AND THE WAVE.
  
TO PLUTUS.
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POESIS HUMANA, ETC.
  
POESIS HUMANA.
  
[When I was young and fresh and gay]
  
THE GENERAL CHORUS.
  
CIVITAS DEI.
  
[I know not if it may be mine]

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TWELVE SEVENS.

Seven years he lives a merry, careless Child,
Seven, Boy, excited, simple, curious, wild;
Seven, Lad, bold, eager, vext with pains of growth;
Seven, Young Man, seeking work and pleasure both;
Seven, Man, with all his active powers in swing;
Seven, Man matured,—if virtuous, then a king;
Seven, Man composed, serene; seven elderly,
Grave, retrospective Senior. Sixty-three
Has brought him to the frontier of Old Age.
At seventy he has reach'd its second stage;
Its third with trembling steps in seven years more.
And if his sevens drag on to eighty-four,
Full welcome be the friendly, shadowy door!
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