OSCAR WILDE
Reading edition
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'HOW UTTER.'
Oscar Wilde A STUDY
FROM THE FRENCH OF ANDRÉ GIDE
WITH INTRODUCTION, NOTES AND BIBLIOGRAPHY BY STUART MASON
Oxford THE HOLYWELL PRESS MCMV
To
Donald Bruce Wallace,
of New York,
in Memory of a Visit last Summer to
Bagneux Cemetery,
A Pilgrimage of Love when we
watered with our Tears the Roses and Lilies
with which we covered
The Poet's Grave.
Oxford,
September, 1905.
[The little poem on the opposite page first saw the light in the pages of the Dublin University Magazine for September, 1876. It has not been reprinted since. The Greek quotation is taken from the Agamemnon of Æschylos, l. 120. ]