AGE OF FABLE,

OR

BEAUTIES OF MYTHOLOGY

BY

THOMAS BULFINCH

A NEW ENLARGED AND ILLUSTRATED EDITION

EDITED BY E. E. HALE

O, ye delicious fables! where the wave

And woods were peopled, and the air, with things

So lovely! why, ah! why has science grave
Scattered afar your sweet imaginings?

BARRY CORNWALL

BOSTON

S. W. TILTON & CO. PUBLISHERS

BOSTON DE WOLFE, FISKE & CO. NEW YORK C. T. DILLINGHAM

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HARVARD
UNIVERSITY
LIBRARY

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1855, by

THOMAS BULFINCH,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1881, by
S. W. TILTON,

In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.

PRESS OF

Rockwell and Churchill,

BOSTON.

TO

HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

THE POET ALIKE OF THE MANY AND OF THE FEW,

THIS ATTEMPT TO POPULARIZE

MYTHOLOGY,

AND EXTEND THE ENJOYMENT OF ELEGANT LITERATURE,

Es Respectfully Enscribed

BY THOMAS BULFINCH.