Locrine: A Tragedy
Transcribed from the 1887 Chatto & Windus edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org

LOCRINE

A TRAGEDY

BY ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE

BY

London CHATTO & WINDUS, PICCADILLY 1887

London

[The right of translation is reserved]

PRINTED BY SPOTTISWOODE AND CO., NEW-STREET SQUARE LONDON

PRINTED BY

SPOTTISWOODE AND CO., NEW-STREET SQUARE

LONDON

 p. vDEDICATION

p. v

TO ALICE SWINBURNE.

I.

The love that comes and goes like wind or fire Hath words and wings wherewith to speak and flee. But love more deep than passion’s deep desire, Clear and inviolable as the unsounded sea, What wings of words may serve to set it free, To lift and lead it homeward? Time and death Are less than love: or man’s live spirit saith False, when he deems his life is more than breath.

The

II.

No words may utter love; no sovereign song Speak all it would for love’s sake. Yet would I Fain cast in moulded 
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