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                               EIDOLON,
                       OR THE COURSE OF A SOUL;
                           AND OTHER POEMS,

                         BY WALTER R. CASSELS


                                LONDON
                          WILLIAM PICKERING
                                 1850


                                  TO
                            CHARLES PEEL,

                     THIS VOLUME IS INSCRIBED BY
                             HIS FRIEND,

                                      W. R. CASSELS.




                              CONTENTS.


                                                                Page
  Eidolon                                                          1
  Alceste                                                         93
  Pygmalion                                                      136

                         MISCELLANEOUS POEMS.
  Ode to Fancy                                                   159
  What is a sigh?                                                165
  Ione                                                           167
  Reality                                                        169
  Retrospection                                                  172
  The Stormy Petrel                                              181
  To ----                                                        183
  The Mermaid                                                    185
  The Spirit of the Air                                          190
  Why do I love thee?                                            195
  Lady Annabel                                                   196
  To Jenny Lind                                                  201
  The Gold Seekers                                               204
  To Woman                                                       209
  The Poet                                                       212
  Evening                                                        224
  Life                                                           226
  Sorrow                                                         229

                               SONNETS.
  I. Written at Ulleswater                                       233
  II. "There is a spell by which the panting soul"               234
  III. "We wander on through life as pilgrims do"                235
  IV. "Sweet spirits of the Beautiful! where'er ye dwell,"      