Transcribed from the 1911 Longmans, Green and Co. edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org [Picture: Cover and spine] [Picture: Man playing at harpsichord] BALLADES & RHYMES _From Ballades in Blue China_ _and Rhymes à la Mode_ * * * * * BY A. LANG * * * * * “_Hom_, _c’est une ballade_!”—VADIUS. * * * * * LONGMANS, GREEN AND CO. 39 PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON NEW YORK, BOMBAY, AND CALCUTTA 1911 All rights reserved * * * * * “_Rondeaux_, BALLADES, _Chansons dizains_, _propos menus_, _Compte moy qu’ilz sont devenuz_: _Se faict il plus rien de nouveau_?” CLEMENT MAROT, _Dialogue de deux Amoureux_. “I love a ballad but even too well; if it be doleful matter, merrily set down, or a very pleasant thing indeed, and sung lamentably.” _A Winter’s Tale_, Act iv. sc. 3. CONTENTS. BALLADES IN BLUE CHINA. PAGE Ballade of Theocritus 15 Ballade of Cleopatra’s Needle 17 Ballade of Roulette 19 Ballade of Sleep 21 Ballade of the Midnight Forest 24 Ballade of the Tweed 27 Ballade of the Book-hunter 29 Ballade of the Voyage to Cythera 31 Ballade of the Summer Term 34 Ballade of the Muse 36 Ballade against the Jesuits 38 Ballade of Dead Cities 40 Ballade of the Royal Game of Golf 42 Double Ballade of Primitive Man 44 Ballade of Autumn 47 Ballade of True Wisdom 49 Ballade of Worldly Wealth 51 Ballade of Life 53 Ballade of Blue China 55 Ballade of Dead Ladies 57 Villon’s Ballade of Good Counsel 59 Ballade of the Bookworm 61 Valentine in form of Ballade 63 Ballade of Old Plays 65 Ballade of his Books 67 Ballade of the Dream 69 Ballade of the Southern Cross 71 Ballade of Aucassin 73