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    London. Edward Moxon & Co. Dover Street.

    _MOXON'S MINIATURE POETS._




    A SELECTION FROM THE WORKS OF FREDERICK LOCKER.


    WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY RICHARD DOYLE.


    LONDON:
    EDWARD MOXON & CO., DOVER STREET.

    1865.

    PRINTED BY BRADBURY AND EVANS, WHITEFRIARS.

    THE ILLUSTRATIONS BY J. E. MILLAIS, R.A., AND RICHARD DOYLE

    THE COVER FROM A DESIGN BY JOHN LEIGHTON, F.S.A.

    THE SERIES PROJECTED AND SUPERINTENDED BY


Some of these pieces appeared in a volume called "London Lyrics," of
which there have been two editions, the first in 1857, and the second
in 1862; a few of the pieces have been restored to the reading of the
First Edition.




TO C. C. L.


    I pause upon the threshold, Charlotte dear,
      To write thy name; so may my book acquire
    One golden leaf. For Some yet sojourn here
      Who come and go in homeliest attire,
    Unknown, or only by the few who see
      The cross they bear, the good that they have wrought:
    Of such art thou, and I have found in thee
      The love and truth that HE, the MASTER, taught;
    Thou likest thy humble poet, canst thou say
    With truth, dear Charlotte?--"And I like