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    c ! I am weary Of tliis being dreary -. Sweet birds ! sweet birds ! Ye must wait till the spring unfoldeth The sun and earth ; And then in mirth Ye may rejoice , And with clear voice Her birth

    Chant to the sphere which her beauty holdeth ; And our thoughts must await The great life beyond fate , To soar and sing , Like ye in spring , Sweet birds ! sweet birds !' p . 5 b—57 .

    That the author is an admirer of Shelley might have been certainly inferred , had he not put it upon record . The congenialities of spirit are obvious . There is no imitation nor blind homage , but a strong affinity of quality and tendency . The same addictedness to creations of mist , and rainbow , and filmy frostwork . The following sonnet shows how a poet is appreciated by a poet :

    ' SHELLEY . * Holy and mighty poet of the Spirit That broods and breathes along the Universe ! In the least portion of whose starry verse Is the great breath the sphered heavens inherit—No human song is eloquent as thine ; For , by a reasoning instinct all divine , Thou feel ' st the soul of things ; and thereof singing , With all the madness of a sky lark springing , From earth to heaven , the intenseness of thy strain . Like the lark ' s music all around us ringing , Laps us in God ' s own heart , and we regain Our primal life etherial !—Men profane Blaspheme thee : I have heard thee Dreamer styled—I ' ve mused upon their wakeftilness , and smiled . ' p . 120 . J

    The last two words were better away . He ' mused upon their wakefulness , ' but we doubt whether he smiled . ' The conclusion jars more upon the mind than would the unfinished line upon the ear . Short measure is better than false fact . If the smile did come , it must have been a slow and melancholy one ; such as might not have misbeseemed Jacques , in the Forest of Ardennes ,

    encountering there some intolerant and conceited interloper from the city . To this sonnet succeeds another , from which we cannot separate it , inasmuch as it is , perchance , an amplification of the aforesaid smile ' s meaning , as excited by one class of objects : 2 L 2

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    Mundi tt Cordis -Carmine . 455

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 1, 1835, page 455, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2647/page/19/