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Legends and Lyrics (Volume I) by Adelaide Ann Proctor 图书在版编目(CIP)数据 Legends and Lyrics��(Volume I)/杨丹主编飞天电子音像出版社 2004 ISBN 7-900363-43-2 监 王 出版发行 飞天电子音像出版社 责任编辑 杨丹 经销 全国各地新华书店 印刷 北京施园印刷厂 版次 2004年6月第1版 书号 ISBN 7-900363-43-2 CONTENTS AN INTRODUCTION BY CHARLES DICKENS ............................... 1 THE ANGEL'S STORY ....................................................................... 18 ECHOES............................................................................................... 30 A FALSE GENIUS ............................................................................... 32 MY PICTURE ...................................................................................... 35 JUDGE NOT ........................................................................................ 38 FRIEND SORROW.............................................................................. 40 ONE BY ONE ...................................................................................... 42 TRUE HONOURS................................................................................ 44 A WOMAN'S QUESTION................................................................... 59 THE THREE RULERS ........................................................................ 62 A DEAD PAST ..................................................................................... 64 A DOUBTING HEART........................................................................ 66 A STUDENT ........................................................................................ 68 A KNIGHT ERRANT .......................................................................... 71 LINGER, OH, GENTLE TIME............................................................74 HOMEWARD BOUND........................................................................ 76 LIFE AND DEATH .............................................................................. 89 NOW..................................................................................................... 91 CLEANSING FIRES............................................................................ 93 THE VOICE OF THE WIND............................................................... 95 TREASURES ....................................................................................... 99 SHINING STARS............................................................................... 101 WAITING ........................................................................................... 103 THE CRADLE SONG OF THE POOR ............................................. 106 BE STRONG ...................................................................................... 109 GOD'S GIFTS..................................................................................... 111 A TOMB IN GHENT ......................................................................... 115 THE ANGEL OF DEATH .................................................................. 131 A DREAM .......................................................................................... 133 THE PRESENT .................................................................................. 135 CHANGES ......................................................................................... 137 STRIVE, WAIT, AND PRAY............................................................. 138 A LAMENT FOR THE SUMMER .................................................... 140 THE UNKNOWN GRAVE ................................................................ 142 GIVE ME THY HEART..................................................................... 144 THE WAYSIDE INN.......................................................................... 149 VOICES OF THE PAST..................................................................... 160 THE DARK SIDE .............................................................................. 162 A FIRST SORROW............................................................................165 MURMURS........................................................................................ 168 GIVE................................................................................................... 171 MY JOURNAL................................................................................... 173 A CHAIN............................................................................................ 178 THE PILGRIMS................................................................................. 181 INCOMPLETENESS ......................................................................... 183 A LEGEND OF BREGENZ ............................................................... 185 A FAREWELL.................................................................................... 196 SOWING AND REAPING................................................................. 198 THE STORM...................................................................................... 200 WORDS.............................................................................................. 202 A LOVE TOKEN................................................................................ 205 A TRYST WITH DEATH................................................................... 207 FIDELIS ............................................................................................. 209 A SHADOW ....................................................................................... 212 THE SAILOR BOY............................................................................ 214 A CROWN OF SORROW.................................................................. 237 THE LESSON OF THE WAR............................................................ 238 THE TWO SPIRITS ........................................................................... 242 A LITTLE LONGER.......................................................................... 249 GRIEF................................................................................................. 252 THE TRIUMPH OF TIME................................................................. 259 A PARTING........................................................................................261 THE GOLDEN GATE........................................................................ 264 PHANTOMS ...................................................................................... 266 THANKFULNESS............................................................................. 269 HOME-SICKNESS ............................................................................ 271 WISHES ............................................................................................. 274 THE PEACE OF GOD ....................................................................... 277 LIFE IN DEATH AND DEATH IN LIFE .......................................... 279 RECOLLECTIONS............................................................................ 286 ILLUSION.......................................................................................... 289 A VISION ........................................................................................... 292 PICTURES IN THE FIRE.................................................................. 295 THE SETTLERS ................................................................................ 299 HUSH ................................................................................................. 302 HOURS............................................................................................... 304 THE TWO INTERPRETERS............................................................. 308 COMFORT ......................................................................................... 311 HOME AT LAST................................................................................ 314 UNEXPRESSED ................................................................................ 316 BECAUSE .......................................................................................... 318 REST AT EVENING .......................................................................... 320 A RETROSPECT................................................................................ 322 TRUE OR FALSE .............................................................................. 326 GOLDEN WORDS............................................................................. 331 ★ Legends and Lyrics ★ AN INTRODUCTION BY CHARLES DICKENS In the spring of the year 1853, I observed, as conductor of the weekly journal Household Words, a short poem among the proffered contributions, very different, as I thought, from the shoal of verses perpetually setting through the office of such a periodical, and possessing much more merit. Its authoress was quite unknown to me. She was one Miss Mary Berwick, whom I had never heard of; and she was to be addressed by letter, if addressed at all, at a circulating library in the western district of London. Through this channel, Miss Berwick was informed that her poem was accepted, and was invited to send another. She complied, and became a regular and frequent contributor. Many letters passed between the journal and Miss Berwick, but Miss Berwick herself was never seen. How we came gradually to establish, at the office of Household Words, that we knew all about Miss Berwick, I Page 1 ★ Legends and Lyrics ★ have never discovered. But we settled somehow, to our complete satisfaction, that she was governess in a family; that she went to Italy in that capacity,