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    Impressions of America
    Impressions of America
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    Impressions of America

    By Stuart Mason and Oscar Wilde

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    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      Impressions of America - Stuart Mason

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      Title: Impressions of America

      Author: Oscar Wilde

      Editor: Stuart Mason

      Release Date: January 9, 2013 [EBook #41806]

      Language: English

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      IMPRESSIONS OF AMERICA.

      BY

      OSCAR WILDE.

      EDITED, WITH AN INTRODUCTION,

      By STUART MASON.

      Keystone Press, Sunderland.

      1906.

      This Edition consists of 500 Copies.

      50 Copies have been printed on hand-made paper.

      TO

      WALTER LEDGER:

      PIGNUS

      AMICITIÆ.

      IMPRESSIONS.

      I.

      LE JARDIN.

      The lily’s withered chalice falls

      Around its rod of dusty gold,

      And from the beech trees on the wold

      The last wood-pigeon coos and calls.

      The gaudy leonine sunflower

      Hangs black and barren on its stalk,

      And down the windy garden walk

      The dead leaves scatter,—hour by hour.

      Pale privet-petals white as milk

      Are blown into a snowy mass;

      The roses lie upon the grass,

      Like little shreds of crimson silk.

      II.

      LA MER.

      A white mist drifts across the shrouds,

      A wild moon in this wintry sky

      Gleams like an angry lion’s eye

      Out of a mane of tawny clouds.

      The muffled steersman at the wheel

      Is but a shadow in the gloom;—

      And in the throbbing engine room

      Leap the long rods of polished steel.

      The shattered storm has left its trace

      Upon this huge and heaving dome,

      For the thin threads of yellow foam

      Float on the waves like ravelled lace.

      Oscar Wilde.

      PREFACE.

      Oscar Wilde visited America in the year 1882. Interest in the Æsthetic School, of which he was already the acknowledged master, had sometime previously spread to the United States, and it is said that the production of the Gilbert and Sullivan opera, Patience, [1] in

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