SIR EDWIN ARNOLD

_After a life-photograph by Elliott and Fry, London_.




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POEMS OF SORROW AND CONSOLATION.


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I. DISAPPOINTMENT IN LOVE.



THE COURSE OF TRUE LOVE.

FROM "MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM," ACT I. SC. 1.


For aught that ever I could read,
Could ever hear by tale or history,