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A Spray of Lilac
Printed by Ballantyne, Hanson and Co.
London and Edinburgh
A Spray
of Lilac
And Other Poems and Songs
BY
MARIE HEDDERWICK BROWNE
LONDON
ISBISTER AND COMPANY Limited
15 & 16 TAVISTOCK STREET COVENT GARDEN
1892
As thou is strong to roll away the stone
From memory’s grave, and set the dead past free
To claim again brief kinship with its own.
PREFATORY NOTE
Most of the Poems contained in this volume have appeared during thepast ten years, in “Atalanta,” “Chambers’s Journal,” “London Society,”“Little Folks,” “The Girl’s Own Paper,” and other serials.
If an apology for venturing to offer them to the public in collectedform be deemed necessary, I can only urge the plea of the poor buthospitable Dervish, “He is a generous host who freely giveth his best,be his best but clear water and a crust.”
M. H. B.
London, December 1892