Dedication
To
the memory of
WILLIAM EDWARD BUTLER
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Several of the poems included in this book are reprinted from American periodicals, as follows: “The Gift of God”, “Old King Cole”, “Another Dark Lady”, and “The Unforgiven”; “Flammonde” and “The Poor Relation”; “The Clinging Vine”; “Eros Turannos” and “Bokardo”; “The Voice of Age”; “Cassandra”; “The Burning Book”; “Theophilus”; “Ben Jonson Entertains a Man from Stratford”.