THE FOUR SEASONS
THE
FOUR SEASONS
BY
CARL EWALD
TRANSLATED BY
ALEXANDER TEIXEIRA DE MATTOS
NEW YORK
DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY
1913
Copyright, 1913,
By DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY,
Published, October, 1913
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TRANSLATOR’S NOTE
The songs in this story have beentranslated into English verse by myfriend Mr. Osman Edwards, who hassuccessfully accomplished the difficulttask of retaining not only the rhymes,but also the lilting rhythm of the originals.
A. T. de M.
Chelsea, 30 April, 1913.
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CONTENTS
| PAGE | |
| Translator’s Note | vii |
| Prologue | xi |
| CHAPTER I | |
| The First Meeting | 1 |
| CHAPTER II | |
| Spring | 25 |
| CHAPTER III | |
| Summer | 65 |
| CHAPTER IV | |
| Autumn | 101 |
| CHAPTER V | |
| Winter | 141 |
| CHAPTER VI | |
| The Second Meeting | 169 |
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PROLOGUE
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Prologue
Lo, nowadays the earth is whiteor green, accord
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