THE PRINCIPLES AND PROGRESS

OF ENGLISH POETRY

ITS PRINCIPLES AND PROGRESS

WITH REPRESENTATIVE MASTERPIECES

AND NOTES

BY

CHARLES MILLS GAYLEY, LITT.D., LL.D

PROFESSOR OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE

IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA

AND

CLEMENT C. YOUNG, B.L.

HEAD OF THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT IN THE LOWELL
HIGH SCHOOL, SAN FRANCISCO

New York

THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

LONDON: MACMILLAN & CO., LTD.

1918

All rights reserved

COPYRIGHT, 1904.

BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.

Set up and electrotyped. Published October, 1904. Reprinted
January, May, September, 1905; January, June, 1906; March, 1907:
March. August, 1908: February, July, 109; June, 1910 January
August, 1911; August, 1912: January, October, 1913; Mav August
TOT; January October, 1915; February, Julv, 1916,

1917.

arca, August,

905 6287

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WITH PIPE AND FLUTE

With pipe and flute the rustic Pan
Of old made music sweet for man;

And wonder hushed the warbling bird,
And closer drew the calm-eyed herd,—
The rolling river slowlier ran.

Ah! would, ah! would, a little span,
Some air of Arcady could fan

This age of ours, too seldom stirred
With pipe and flute!

But now for gold we plot and plan;
And from Beersheba unto Dan,
Apollo's self might pass unheard,

Or find the night-jar's note preferred;-
Not so it fared, when time began,

With pipe and flute!

AUSTIN DOBSON.

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