Ballade of Neglected Merit 78 Ballade of Railway Novels 80 The Cloud Chorus 82 Ballade of Literary Fame 85 Νήνεμος Αἰών 87 ART 89 A very woful Ballade of the Art Critic 91 Art’s Martyr 94 The Palace of Bric-à-brac 97 Rondeaux of the Galleries 100 SCIENCE 103 The Barbarous Bird-Gods 105 Man and the Ascidian 110 Ballade of the Primitive Jest 113 CAMEOS 115 Cameos 117 Helen on the walls 118 The Isles of the Blessed 119 Death 121 Nysa 122 Colonus (I.) 123 ,, (II.) 124 The Passing of Œdipous 125 The Taming of Tyro 126 To Artemis 127 Criticism of Life 128 Amaryllis 129 The Cannibal Zeus 130 Invocation of Isis 132 The Coming of Isis 133 THE SPINET 134 NOTES 135 _BALLADE DEDICATORY_. _TO_ _MRS. ELTON_ _OF WHITE STAUNTON_. _THE painted Briton built his mound_, _And left his celts and clay_, _On yon fair slope of sunlit ground_ _That fronts your garden gay_; _The Roman came_, _he bore the sway_, _He bullied_, _bought_, _and sold_, _Your fountain sweeps his works away_ _Beside your manor old_! _But still his crumbling urns are found_ _Within the window-bay_, _Where once he listened to the sound_ _That lulls you day by day_;— _The sound of summer winds at play_, _The noise of waters cold_ _To Yarty wandering on their way_, _Beside your manor old_!