Chapter 54 No.54

A Dream of Fair Women

[In the 1833 volume the poem opened with the following four verses, suppressed after 1842. These Fitz Gerald considered made 'a perfect poem by themselves.']

As when a man, that sails in a balloon,

Downlooking sees the solid shining ground

Stream from beneath him in the broad blue noon,

Tilth, hamlet, mead and m

            
            

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