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Dushyanta's Revery, Sakoontala; "I am the pure Lotus," 

 Book of the Dead; " And why take ye thought, " St. Matt. VI, 

 28; "His cheeks are as spices," Canti, V, 13; "Eternity 

 gives nothing back," Schiller; "To feed in the gardens,", 

 Song of Solomon, VI, 2. 



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Frame XII. A Year and a. Day. 

 Six stanzas. Interlude, Coan. 



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Frame XIII. The Chancellor's Conscience. 



"Three barley-corns, round and dry" Statute of Edward 

 \ II (1324); "Equity is a roguish thing," John Selden (1584- 

 1654), Table talk; " Kiku-No-Mon, " The Japanese imperial 

 crest, which represents the full-blown chrysanthemum. 



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Frame XIV. Auspicious Hope. 



"The twinnes of Hippocrates," John Lyly (1579); "Hope 

 springs eternal, " Pope's Essay on Man ; "The dead summer's 

 soul," May Clemmer; "The melancholy days," Bryant, 

 Death of Flowers; "Year's last, loveliest smile," J. H. Bryant ; 

 "So fall the light autumnal leaves," Dante, Inferno; "The 

 yonge sonne, " Prologue to Canterbury Tales; "Irem Gar- 

 dens, "Koran, Sura LXXXIX, The Daybreak; "Irem Gar- 

 den, " see Jami, Salaman and Absal; "Shot an arrow over the 

 house," Hamlet, V, i; "As many men," Terence, Phormio, 

 II, 4 (B.C. 185); Christoph Plantin, Sonnette, "Le Bonheur 

 de ce Monde," 



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To have a cheerful, bright and airy dwelling-place, 

 With garden, lawns and climbing flowers sweet; 

 Fresh fruits, good wine, a few children; there to meet 

 A quiet, faithful wife, whose love shines through her face. 



(Trans, by J. T. R. Gibbs). 

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