But what we are, and why we are; and whereforo
We are the thing we are, behold, we know not,
And grope in nature for the secret thought.

Where are thy bones, Faustine,

LIEUT. GIBSON.

And where art thou?

SWINDURNE.

BY

MRS. METTA V. VICTOR.

NEW YORK

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NEW YORK:

G. W. Carleton & Co., Publishers.

LONDON: S. LOW & CO.

MDCCCLXXVI.

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