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L’Envoi

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 July 2026

Philip James Bailey
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Mischa Willett
Mischa Willett
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Seattle Pacific University
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Summary

  • 1. READ this world! He who writes is dead to thee,

  • 2. But still lives in these leaves. He spake inspired:

  • 3. Night and day, thought came unhelped, undesired,

  • 4. Like blood to his heart. The course of study he

  • 5. Went through was of the soul-rack. The degree

  • 6. He took was high: it was wise wretchedness.

  • 7. He suffered perfectly, and gained no less

  • 8. A prize than, in his own torn heart, to see

  • 9. A few bright seeds: he sowed them — hoped them truth.

  • 10. The autumn of that seed is in these pages.

  • 11. God was with him, and bade old Time, to the youth,

  • 12. Unclench his heart, and teach the book of ages.

  • 13. Peace to thee, world! — farewell! May God the Power,

  • 14. And God the Love — and God the Grace, be ours!

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Philip James Bailey, Festus
An Epic Poem
 , pp. 361
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
First published in: 2026

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