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4 Byronic Tale of Verse Wins the Pri7
Book, dream OF the Ages"

4 ByrOnic Tale OF Verse Wins the IrlEe
Book. dream of the Ages
PRIZES AND PRIZE WINNER.
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ested. Contributors will please state whether they
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mento of honors well won.
To II. d. Maupin. this weeks prize winner, has
been awarded Dream of the Ages" by Kate
Brownlee Sherwood, one 1.-The books of the Co
lumbar era, which has been accorded high COM
mendations by reviewers and the reading public
TALE OF BYRoNIC VERSE
al have gathered the thoughts of another and
tied them with one of my own.'-1fontdigne.
ITO G. H EdInondSon.)
In my " Hours of IdIeuess"I stood
1.-THE Island listening to - The Lament OF Tssso,"
as it was waited over the banks OF the deep-bIue
sea.
Away in the distance one could hear the faint
echoes of THE Siege of Corinth" and the last
chimes of the " Ode TO Venice" Now and then 1
caught n glimpse of the " Maid of Athens" as the
darkne fell around US.
As my mind slowly and silently wendell its way
from Heaven and Earth " the only sound could
dies" sung by poor, lamented Francisco OF
Rimini.'' ] heard The Giaour" tell how the
Maid of Athens" was married 10 The Corsair,"
and his subsequent death and burial in a nameless
grave.
But my soul was touched when I heard the
nournful tale OF Parsina," who. inspired by "A
Dream" of LARA" declined 20 obey "Marino
Fahero." and thereby suffered /" The Curse of Mi
nerva"-death.
"Beppo," in one of his moods gave an account
of the downfall of "Sardanapalas," which con-
firIned the Prophecy of Dante"
1t through THE Hints of Horace" that
"Childe Harold ''-more in a spirit OF sadness
told the adventures and sufferDgs of The Prs-
oner of Chilon" babe them beware OF the Doge
He was told that ID WAS in The Age of Bronze "
that Mazeppa" rendered dramatically the Ode
to Napoleon Bonaparte," and Manfred related
how, when standing on the Alps, The Bride OF
Abydos" made her last frantic appeal to "Childe
Harold" to recte the Occasional Pieces" How.
ever he told of Gains" visit TO Heaven and
Earth, and the glowing tribute paid TO Heaven.
Being entertained by Werner" his peculiar logic
suppressed all humor in The English Bards and
The "Deformed Transformed" having sung
Maid of Athens Ere Pari." the conclusion of the
tales was reached when they all fell asleep after
hearing so much Byronic literature.
Fl. ID. Maupin, 6s West Eighth street, New York
City.
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