Balaustion's Adventure
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Dedication edit
TO THE COUNTESS COWPER.
If I mention the simple truth: that this poem absolutely owes its existence to you — who not only suggested, but imposed on me as a task, what has proved the most delightful of May-month amusements — I shall seem honest, indeed, but hardly prudent; for, how good and beautiful ought such a poem to be!
Euripides might fear little; but I, also, have an interest in the performance: and what wonder if I beg you to suffer that it make, in another and far easier sense, its nearest possible approach to those Greek qualities of goodness and beauty, by laying itself gratefully at your feet?
R. B.
London, July 23, 1871.
Our Euripides, the human,
With his droppings of warm tears,
And his touches of things common
Till they rose to touch the spheres.
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This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.
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