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AN INDIAN TALE.

["THE BAYADERE" was taken from some faint recollection of a tale I had either read or heard; and meeting with the word "Bayadere" many years after recalled it to my memory as a subject exquisitely poetical. I have been since told it was a poem of Goëthe's. This poem has never been to my knowledge translated; and, being ignorant of the German language, I am unable to say whether the tale conforms to the original or not.]

This poem together with the others listed below were published previously in The Literary Gazette (with the odd minor alteration). They can be accessed either from here or from the full list of contents.

TALES AND MISCELLANEOUS POEMS.

FRAGMENTS.