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1909 · PDF PAGE 6

Alexandra

… : Thou wast (or I know nothing about girls) Barely eighteen.2 . . . . . . VII. Thy royal Edward’s undivided love Hath been thy lifelong privilege, ’tis true ! Still, is he not, though us so far above, Our Edward too ? . . . . . . XII. Why did the heathen Hindoo’s loyal roar Acclaim that dream brighter than bard e’er dreamt ?3 He worshipped thee4 . . . XIII. ’Twas not thy George’s viking frame that set Australia cheering : but their souls surprise The God within his magian deeply-set Mysterious eyes.5

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1909 · PDF PAGE 5

Alexandra

least in those of her works that I have hitherto had the glorious privilege of perusing. It is, by the way, my favourite pastime when I have, as we say in Fleet Street, the “ blunt ” to go down to Marlow or Maidenhead in a punt, and there lie in some shady favourite backwater with my favourite girl friend in front. What a thing friendship is, world without end ! — and my favourite old black briar between my lips, and her sweet face fixed on my old favour- ite thumb-worn — copy of Sappho, and pore over the deevie pages, hour after hour, bound by…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 3

Alexandra

… shorter edges like a postage stamp These she had placed on my mantelpiece for pipe-spills, and forgotten about them. It is my pride and privilege through my old and esteemed consœur, as I suppose I may say for the lady of confrère, to give the providentially rescued masterpiece ; alas ! too incomplete ! to the World of Society, though even the humblest may enjoy (A navvy, when they were repairing the street, whom I asked up to taste my delicious T. — I think the ab- breviation is so clever, don’t you ? — and to whom I had read it, said : “ B..…

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