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PREFACE.
And harder still to make that vision bear
The loose refraction of a modern tongue,
To render sight to hearing, old to young,
And fix my purview on a stranger's ear.
The loose refraction of a modern tongue,
To render sight to hearing, old to young,
And fix my purview on a stranger's ear.
Too well I know, by market hopes misled,
How cheap are things that long have cost me dear;
And though I fail to graft the Poet here,
I fear to flaunt my wilding shoots instead.
How cheap are things that long have cost me dear;
And though I fail to graft the Poet here,
I fear to flaunt my wilding shoots instead.
But yonder lo, my amethysts and gold,
So please you—grapes and apricots—constrain
My more accustom'd hands; unless ye deign
To tend with me the "kine and bees of old."
So please you—grapes and apricots—constrain
My more accustom'd hands; unless ye deign
To tend with me the "kine and bees of old."
C― Garden,
June, 1862.
June, 1862.
