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"Lyra Heroica A Book of Verse for Boys"


By permission of the Author. Hogni and Gunnar, being the guests
of King Atli, husband to their sister Gudrun, refused to tell
him the whereabouts of the treasure of Fafnir, whom Sigurd slew;
and this is the manner of their taking and the beginning of King
Atli's vengeance.

CXIV
_English Illustrated Magazine_, January 1890, and _Lyrical Poems_
(Macmillan, 1891). By permission of the Author: with whose
sanction I have omitted four lines from the last stanza.

CXV
By permission of Sir Alfred Lyall. _Cornhill Magazine_,
September 1868, and _Verses Written in India_ (Kegan Paul, 1889).
The second title is: _A Soliloquy that may have been delivered in
India, June 1857_; and this is further explained by the following
'extract from an Indian newspaper':--'They would have spared
life to any of their English prisoners who should consent to
profess Mahometanism by repeating the usual short formula; but
only one half-caste cared to save himself that way.' Then comes
the description, _Moriturus Loquitur_, and next the poem.

CXVI-CXVIII
From _Songs before Sunrise_ (Chatto and Windus, 1877), and
the third series of _Poems and Ballads_ (Chatto and Windus,
1889). By permission of the Author.

CXIX, CXX
_The Complete Poetical Works of Bret Harte_ (Chatto and Windus,
1886).


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