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Title: Romance
Author: Joseph Conrad and F.M. Hueffer
Release Date: January 31, 2006 [EBook #17642]
Language: English
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ROMANCE
By Joseph Conrad
and
F. M. Hueffer
COPYRIGHT, 1903, BY
DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES
AT
THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS, GARDEN CITY, N. Y.
TO
ELSIE AND JESSIE
"C'est toi qui dors dans Vombre, O sacré Souvenir."
If we could have remembrance now
And see, as in the days to come
We shall, what's venturous in these hours:
The swift, intangible romance of fields at home,
The gleams of sun, the showers,
Our workaday contentments, or our powers
To fare still forward through the uncharted haze
Of present days. . . .
For, looking back when years shall flow
Upon this olden day that's now,