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Ceres' Runaway, by Alice Meynell
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Title: Ceres' Runaway
Author: Alice Meynell
Release Date: March 15, 2005 [eBook #1295]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII)
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Transcribed from the 1909 Constable & Co. Ltd. edition by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk
Ceres' Runaway & Other Essays
Contents:
Ceres' Runaway A Vanquished Man A Northern Fancy Laughter Harlequin Mercutio The Little Language Anima Pellegrina! The Sea Wall The Daffodil Addresses The Audience Tithonus The Tow Path The Tethered Constellations Popular Burlesque Dry Autumn The Plaid Two Burdens The Unready The Child of Tumult The Child of Subsiding Tumult
CERES' RUNAWAY
One can hardly be dull possessing the pleasant imaginary picture of a Municipality hot in chase of a wild crop--at least while the charming quarry escapes, as it does in Rome. The Municipality does not exist that would be nimble enough to overtake the Roman growth of green in the high places of the city. It is true that there have been the famous captures--those in the Colosseum, and in the Baths of Caracalla; moreover a less conspicuous running to earth takes place on the Appian Way, in some miles of the solitude of the Campagna, where men are employed in wee