I slip, I slide, I gloom, I glance,
Among my skimming swallows;
I make the netted sunbeam dance
Against my sandy shallows.

I murmur under moon and stars
In brambly wildernesses;
I linger by my shingly bars;
I loiter round my cresses;

And out again I curve and flow
To join the brimming river,

For men may come and men may go,
But I go on for ever.

CROSSING THE BAR.

SUNSET and evening star,

And one clear call for me!

And may there be no moaning of the bar,

When I put out to sea,

But such a tide as moving seems asleep,

Too full for sound and foam,

When that which drew from out the boundless deep
Turns again home.

Twilight and evening bell,

And after that the dark!

And may there be no sadness of farewell

When I embark;

For tho' from out our bourne of Time and Place,

The flood may bear me far,

I hope to see my Pilot face to face

When I have crost the bar.

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FROM MILTON TO TENNYSON

MASTERPIECES OF ENGLISH POETRY

BY

L. DUPONT SYLE, M.A. (YALE)

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH LITERATURE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA

LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS.

Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable.

Gayley's Classic Myths in English Literature.

English Men of Letters Series.

= Great Writers Series.

= Green's Short History of the English People.

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Rich's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities.

WHITNEY

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Whitney's Essentials of English Grammar.

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