Ballads and Sonnets
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The opening
ROSE MARY. PART I.
Of her two fights with the Beryl-stone: Lost the first, but the second won,
PART I.
“Mary mine that art Mary’s Rose, Come in to me from the garden-close. The sun sinks fast with the rising dew, And we marked not how the faint moon grew; But the hidden stars are calling you.
“Tall Rose Mary, come to my side, And read the stars if you’d be a bride. In hours whose need was not your own. While you were a young maid yet ungrown, YouVe read the stars in the Beryl-stone.
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About this edition
- The words
- The author's text, copied word for word.
- Left out
- Page numbers and running heads from the printed pages, in 5 places
- Notes and pages added by translators, editors or publishers, in 2 places
- Google's notice on the digitized copy (the scanning library's notice) (17 blocks)
- The title page and opening pages before chapter 1, in 3 places
- Oxford library stamp on the scanned copy (“2 7 SEP. 1935”), read by the OCR as letters (5 blocks)
- Printer's imprint (Chiswick Press: Charles Whittingham and Co.)
- The printed table of contents (the app makes its own), in 2 places
- Half-title of Rose Mary (the poem's title is printed again where it begins)
- A speck of show-through or a printer's signature letter, read by the OCR as marks (57 blocks)
- Half-title of The White Ship (the poem's title is printed again where it begins)
- Closing line (2 blocks)
- Printer's imprint (Chiswick Press: Charles Whittingham and Co., Tooks Court, Chancery Lane)
- A speck on the last page of the scan