OLD SHRINES AND IVY

OLD SHRINES

AND IVY

BY

WILLIAM WINTER

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"I do love these ancient ruins:
We never tread upon them but we set
Our foot upon some reverend history.
But all things have their end"
THE DUCHESS OF MALFI

NEW YORK

MACMILLAN AND COMPANY

AND LONDON

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COPYRIGHT, 1892,

BY MACMILLAN AND CO.

Typography by J. S. Cushing & Co., Boston, U.S.A.

Presswork by Berwick & Smith, Boston, U.S.A.

ΤΟ

George William Curtis

WITH HONOUR FOR A NOBLE MIND

AND A BEAUTIFUL LIFE

AND WITH AFFECTIONATE MEMORIES

OF MUCH KINDNESS

DURING MORE THAN THIRTY YEARS OF

UNCLOUDED FRIENDSHIP

I DEDICATE THIS BOOK

66 Ibimus, ibimus,

Utcunque præcedes, supremum
Carpere iter comites parati "