Poem by Richard Garnett

On an Inanimate Actress

Thou hast a score of parts not good,
	But two divinely shown:
Thy Daphne a true piece of wood,
	Thy Niobe a stone.

[From the Greek of Palladas.]

1. The Highwayman's Ghost
2. Age
3. Dante
4. The Taper
5. Our Crocodile

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