S.J.
WELLESLEY COLLEGE,
June, 1908.


EDITIONS: R. Morris, Early English text Sc. 1864; I. Gollancz, London,
1891; C.G. Osgood, Boston, 1906 (with admirable introduction, etc.).
TRANSLATIONS: Gollancz (above); S. Weir Mitchell, New York, 1906
(poetic, but incomplete); G.G. Coulton, London, 1906 (metre of the
original); C.G. Osgood, Princeton, 1907 (prose).




THE PEARL




I


Pearl that the Prince full well might prize,
So surely set in shining gold!
No pearl of Orient with her vies;
To prove her peerless I make bold:
So round, so radiant to mine eyes,
smooth she seemed, so small to hold,
Among all jewels judges wise