HYPERION,

A ROMANCE.

BY

THE AUTHOR OF "OUTRE-MER."

1/28/13

"Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the
Present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with
a manly heart."

VOLUME I

NEW YORK:

PUBLISHED BY SAMUEL COLMAN,

8, ASTOR HOUSE.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1839, by

SAMUEL COLMAN,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of New York.

BOOK THE THIRD.

"Take away the lights, too;

The moon lends me too much to find my fears;
And those devotions I am now to pay,

Are written in my heart, not in thy book;

And I shall read them there without a taper."