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THE PRINCIPLES AND PROGRESS

OF ENGLISH POETRY

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CHARLES MILLS GAYLEY, LITT.D., LL.D.,

PROFESSOR OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE

IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA

AND

CLEMENT C. YOUNG, B.L.,

HEAD OF THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT IN THE LOWELL
HIGH SCHOOL, SAN FRANCISCO

New York

THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

LONDON: MACMILLAN & CO., LTD.

1904

All rights reserved

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Ah! would, -ah! would, a little span,
Some air of Arcady could fan

This age of ours, too seldom stirred
With pipe and flute !

But now for gold we plot and plan;
And from Beersheba unto Dan,
Apollo's self might pass unheard,

Or find the night-jar's note preferred; —
Not so it fared, when time began,

With pipe and flute!

AUSTIN DOBSON.

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