Oscar Wilde, a study

by André Gide

OSCAR WILDE

This Edition consists of 500 copies.

Fifty copies have been printed on hand-made paper.

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'HOW UTTER.'

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Oscar Wilde
A STUDY

FROM THE FRENCH OF
ANDRÉ GIDE

WITH INTRODUCTION, NOTES AND BIBLIOGRAPHY
BY
STUART MASON

Oxford
THE HOLYWELL PRESS
MCMV

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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.

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[The little poem on the opposite page first saw the light in the pages of the Dublin University Magazine for September, 1876. It has not been reprinted since. The Greek quotation is taken from the Agamemnon of Æschylos, l. 120. ]

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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.

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