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    Is it not in my nature to adore , And e ' en for all my reason do I not Feel him , and thank him , and pray to Linn ?—Now . Can I forego the trust that he loves me ? Do I not feel a love which only one . . . ,

    0 thou pale form , so dimly seen , deep-eyed , 1 have denied thee calmly—do I not Pant when I read of thy consummate deeds . And burn to see thy calm , pure truths out-flash The brightest gleams of earth ' s philosophy ? Do I not shake to hear aught question thee ? . . . .

    * If I am erring save me , madden me , Take from me powers , and pleasures—let me die Ages , so I see thee : J am knit round As with a charm , by sin and lust and pride , Yet tho' my wandering * dreams have seen all shapes

    Of strange delight , oft have I stood by thee—Have I been keeping lonely watch with thee , In the damp night by weeping Olivet , Or leaning on thy bosom , proudly less- — Or dying with thee on the lonely cross—Or witnessing thy bursting from the tomb V

    And now when he has run the whole toilsome yet giddy round and arrived at the goal there arises , even though that goal be religion , or because it is religion , a yearning after human sympathies and affections , which would not have assorted with any state or moment of the previous experience ; he coulcl not have loved before ; at one time it would have been only a fancy , a cold , and yet perhaps extravagant imagining ; at another , a low and selfish passion . Some souls are purified by love , others are purified for love . Othello needed not Desdemona to listen to his tale of

    disastrous chances ; they were only external perils , repaid by elevated station ; but the mind that has gone through more than his vicissitudes , been in deeper dangers , and deadlier struggles , even when it rests at last in a far higher repose and dignity , yearns for some onewjio will * seriously incline' to listen to the ' strange eventful history / one who will sympathize and soothe , who will

    receive the co-nfession , and give the absolution of heaven its best earthly ratification , that of a pure and loving heart . The poem is addressed to Pauline ; with her it begins , and ends ; and her presence is felt throughout , as that of a second conscience , wounded by evil , but never stern , and incorporate in a form of beauty * which blends and softens the strong contrasts of different portions of the poem , so that all might be murmured by the breath of affection .

    The author cannot expect such a poem as thU to b $ popular , to make « a hit , ' to produce a * sensation . ' The public are but slow in recognising the claims of Tennyson , whom ; in some respects he resembles ; and the common eye scarcely yet discerns among the

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    9 $ 8 Pauline .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1833, page 258, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2612/page/42/