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LYRICAL AND IDYLLIC.

BY

EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN.

NEW YORK:

CHARLES SCRIBNER, 124 GRAND STREET.
1860.

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1860, by
CHARLES SCRIBNER,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the
Southern District of New York.

R. CRAIGHEAD,
Printer, Stereotyper, and Electrotyper,
Carton Building,

81, 83, and 85 Centre Street.

THIS volume is mostly composed of such productions, as have somewhat borne the tests of time and review-to which they have been subjected by the author, in the earnest desire to prefer his art before himself. If they exhibit too great variety of purpose, it is because he has not been able, at any one period during the last few years, to prepare enough matter to offer in the present form. What has been done is the result of unequal moments, saved from that daily taskwork, which must first be met by every true man on whom it is imposed.

Except a few off-hand pieces, classed as "The

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