Chapter I: Front Matter

James Russell Lowell.

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HEARTSEASE AND RUE

BY

JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL

BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY
The Riverside Press, Cambridge
1888

Copyright, 1888,
BY JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL.

_All rights reserved._

_The Riverside Press, Cambridge_:
Electrotyped and Printed by H. O. Houghton & Co.

_Along the wayside where we pass bloom few_ _Gay plants of heartsease, more of saddening rue;_ _So life is mingled; so should poems be_ _That speak a conscious word to you and me._

CONTENTS.