Produced by Chuck Greif, MWS and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries) [Illustration: _THE CAMEO SERIES_] _A LONDON PLANE TREE_ BY THE SAME AUTHOR. A MINOR POET, AND OTHER VERSE. THE ROMANCE OF A SHOP (_A Novel_). REUBEN SACHS (_A Novel_). [Illustration: A LONDON PLANE-TREE] A London Plane-Tree and other _Verse_ by AMY LEVY CAMEO SERIES T. FISHER UNWIN PATERNOSTER SQ. LONDON, E.C. MDCCCLXXXIX IN SAME SERIES. 1. The Lady from the Sea. By HENRIK IBSEN. 3. Wordsworth’s Grave, and Other Poems. By WILLIAM WATSON. 4. Sakuntalā; or, The Fatal Ring. By KĀLIDĀSA. Translated by Sir WILLIAM JONES. Introduction by Prof. RHYS DAVIDS. _The proofs of this volume were corrected by the Author about a week before her death._ _Mine is an urban Muse, and bound_ _By some strange law to paven ground._ AUSTIN DOBSON. _To Clementina Black._ [Illustration: text decoration] _More blest than was of old Diogenes,_ _I have not held my lantern up in vain._ _Not mine, at least, this evil--to complain:_ _“There is none honest among all of these.”_ _Our hopes go down that sailed before the breeze;_ _Our creeds upon the rock are rent in twain;_ _Something it is, if at the last remain_ _One floating spar cast up by hungry seas._ _The secret of our being, who can tell?_ _To praise the gods and Fate is not my part;_ _Evil I see, and pain; within my heart_ _There is no voice that whispers: “All is well.”_ _Yet fair are days in summer; and more fair_ _The growths of human goodness here and there._ _Contents._ [Illustration: text decoration] A London Plane-Tree. PAGE _A London Plane-Tree_ 17 _London in July_ 18 _A March Day in London_ 19 _Ballade of an Omnibus_ 21 _Ballade of a Special Edition_ 23