Ballades & Rhymes from Ballades in Blue China and Rhymes a la Mode
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Invocation of Isis

234

234

The Coming of Isis

235

235

The Spinet

The Spinet

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236

Notes

Notes

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237

p. 1INTRODUCTION

p. 1

Thirty years have passed, like a watch in the night, since the earlier of the two sets of verses here reprinted, Ballades in Blue China, was published. At first there were but twenty-two Ballades; ten more were added later. They appeared in a little white vellum wrapper, with a little blue Chinese singer copied from a porcelain jar; and the frontispiece was a little design by an etcher now famous.

Thirty

Thirty years ago blue china was a kind of fetish in some circles, æsthetic 
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