VOLUME I

LYRICS AND OLD WORLD

IDYLLS

[Illustration]

"It shall go hard with him through thee, unconquerable blade"

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_Accolon of Gaul_

THE POEMS OF

MADISON CAWEIN

_Volume I_

LYRICS AND OLD

WORLD IDYLLS

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY

EDMUND GOSSE

_Illustrated_

WITH PHOTOGRAVURES AFTER PAINTINGS

BY ERIC PAPE

INDIANAPOLIS

THE BOBBS-MERRILL COMPANY

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COPYRIGHT, 1887, 1888, 1889, 1890, 1891, 1892, 1893,

1898 AND 1907, BY MADISON CAWEIN

PRESS OF

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TO

WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS

WHO WAS THE FIRST TO RECOGNIZE AND ENCOURAGE

MY ENDEAVORS, THIS VOLUME IS

INSCRIBED WITH AFFECTION, ADMIRATION

AND ESTEEM