OSCAR WILDE
This Edition consists of 500 copies.
Fifty copies have been printed onhand-made paper.
'HOW UTTER.'
Oscar Wilde
A STUDY
FROM THE FRENCH OF
ANDRÉ GIDE
WITH INTRODUCTION, NOTES AND BIBLIOGRAPHY
BY
STUART MASON
Oxford
THE HOLYWELL PRESS
MCMV
To
Donald Bruce Wallace,
of New York,
in Memory of a Visit last Summer to
Bagneux Cemetery,
A Pilgrimage of Love when we
watered with our Tears the Roses and Lilies
with which we covered
The Poet's Grave.
Oxford,
September, 1905.
[The little poem on the opposite page first saw the light in thepages of the Dublin University Magazine for September,1876. It has not been reprinted since. The Greek quotationis taken from the Agamemnon of Æschylos, l. 120. ]
[Pg xi]
 Αἴλινον, αἴινον εἰπὲ,
Τὸ δ᾽ ευ̉ νικάτω
O well for him who lives at ease
With garnered gold in wide domain,
Nor heeds the plashing of the rain,
The crashing down of forest trees.
O well for him who ne'er hath known
The travail of the hungry years,
A father grey with grief and tears,
A mother weeping all alone.
But well for him whose feet hath trod
The weary road of toil and strife,
Yet from the sorrows of his life
Builds ladders to be nearer God.
Oscar F. O'F. Wills Wilde.
S. M. Magdalen College,
Oxford.
[Pg xii]
NOTE.
M. Gide's Study of Mr. Oscar Wilde (perhaps thebest account yet written of the poet's latter days) appearedfirst in L'Ermitage, a monthly literary review,in June, 1902. It was afterwards reprinted with somefew slight alterations in a volume of critical essays,entitled Prétextes, by M. Gide. It is now published inEnglish for the first time, by special arrangement withthe author.
S. M.
[Pg xiii]
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