Produced by Charles Aldarondo, Leonard Johnson and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net COLLECTED POEMS BY AUSTIN DOBSON IN TWO VOLUMES VOL. II. _Majores majora sonent_ NEW YORK DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY PUBLISHERS _Copyright, 1895,_ BY DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY * * * * * _All rights reserved._ University Press: JOHN WILSON AND SON, CAMBRIDGE, U. S. A. _"For old sake's sake!" 'Twere hard to choose_ _Words fitter for an old-world Muse_ _Than these, that in their cadence bring_ _Faint fragrance of the posy-ring,_ _And charms that rustic lovers use._ _The long day lengthens, and we lose_ _The first pale flush, the morning hues,--_ _Ah! but the back-look, lingering,_ _For old sake's sake!_ That _we retain. Though Time refuse_ _To lift the veil on forward views,_ _Despot in most, he is not King_ _Of those kind memories that cling_ _Around his travelled avenues_ _For old sake's sake!_ "_Qui n'a pas l'esprit de son age_ _De son age a tout le malheur._" Voltaire. CONTENTS. Page AT THE SIGN OF THE LYRE:-- The Ladies of St. James's 3 The Old Sedan Chair 6 To an Intrusive Butterfly 9 The Cure's Progress 11 The Masque of the Months 13 Two Sermons 17 "Au Revoir" 19 The Carver and the Caliph 26 To an Unknown Bust in the British Museum 29 Molly Trefusis 32 At the Convent Gate 36 The Milkmaid 38 An Old Fish-Pond 40 An Eastern Apologue 43 To a Missal of the Thirteenth Century 45 A Revolutionary Relic 48 A Madrigal 54 A Song to the Lute 56 A Garden Song 58 A Chapter of Froissart 60 To the Mammoth Tortoise 64 A Roman "Round-Robin" 66 Verses to Order 68 A Legacy 70 "Little Blue Ribbons" 72 Lines to a Stupid Picture 74 A Fairy Tale 76 To a Child 78 Household Art 80 The Distressed Poet 81 Jocosa Lyra 83 My Books 85