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Title: The Battle of the Bays

Author: Owen Seaman

Release Date: July 27, 2009 [EBook #29515]

Language: English

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THE BATTLE OF THE BAYS

_By the same Author_

IN CAP AND BELLS
HORACE AT CAMBRIDGE
TILLERS OF THE SAND

BY OWEN SEAMAN

JOHN LANE
THE BODLEY HEAD
LONDON & NEW YORK
1902

_Copyright in the United States._
_All Rights Reserved._

_Eighth Edition_

CONTENTS.

PAGE
I. The Battle of the Bays 1
1. A Song of Renunciation 1
2. For the Albums of Crowned Heads Only 5
3. Marsyas in Hades 11
4. The Rhyme of the Kipperling 15
5. A Ballad of a Bun 22
6. A Vigo-Street Eclogue 27
7. An Ode to Spring in the Metropolis 37
8. Yet 42
9. Elegi Musarum 44
II. To Mr. William Watson 49
III. England's Alfred Abroad 53
IV. Lilith Libifera 57
V. Ars Postera 58
VI. A New Blue Book 61
VII. To a Boy-Poet of the Decadence 64
VIII. To Julia in Shooting Togs 66
IX. The Links of Love 69
X. Swords and Ploughshares 71
XI. To the Lord of Potsdam