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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Idyl  \I"dyl\,  n.  [L.  idyllium  Gr  ?,  fr  ?  form  literally,  a 
  little  form  of  image:  cf  F.  idylle.  See  {Idol}.] 
  A  short  poem;  properly,  a  short  pastoral  poem;  as  the  idyls 
  of  Theocritus  also  any  poem,  especially  a  narrative  or 
  descriptive  poem,  written  in  an  eleveted  and  highly  finished 
  style;  also  by  extension,  any  artless  and  easily  flowing 
  description,  either  in  poetry  or  prose,  of  simple,  rustic 
  life,  of  pastoral  scenes,  and  the  like  [Written  also 
  {idyll}.] 
 
  Wordsworth's  solemn-thoughted  idyl.  --Mrs. 
  Browning. 
 
  His  [Goldsmith's]  lovely  idyl  of  the  Vicar's  home.  --F. 
  Harrison. 




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