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APPENDIX I.

PASSAGES TO BE PUNCTUATED.

1. During our walk we stepped into Christs Hospital and turned to the page on its record book where together we read this entry October 9 1782 Charles Lamb aged seven years son of John Lamb Scrivener and Elizabeth his wife

2. Whoever wishes to get a good look at Landor will not seek for it alone in John Forsters interesting life of the old man but will turn to Dickenss Bleak House for side glances at the great author In that vivid story Dickens has made his friend Landor sit for the portrait of Lawrence Boythorn The very laugh that made the whole house vibrate the roundness and fulness of voice the fury of superlatives all are given in Dickenss best manner and no one who has ever seen Landor for half an hour could possibly mistake Boythorn for anybody else

3. Here is a letter bearing date Thursday night November 25 1852 in which he refers to his own writings and copies a charming song

Your letter announcing the arrival of the little preface reached me last night I shall look out for the book in about three weeks hence as you tell me they are all

printed You Americans are a rapid race When I thought you were in Scotland lo you had touched the soil of Boston and when you were unpacking my poor MS tumbling it out of your great trunk behold it is arranged — it is in the printers hands—it is printed — published it is ah would I could add Sold That after all is the grand triumph in Boston as well as London

4. Well since it is not sold yet let us be generous and give a few copies away Indeed such is my weakness that I would sometimes rather give than sell

5. You speak of London as a delightful place I dont know how it may be in the white-bait season but at present it is foggy rainy cold dull

6. To the south an expanse of sea varied by reflection of white Alpine cloud and delicate lines of most pure blue the low sun sending its line of light from the horizon the surges dashing far below against rocks of black marble and lines of foam drifting back with the current into the open sea

7. The qualities which are his defects in more serious productions become merits in his correspondence or rather they cease to be defects

8. Can such delights be in the street And open fields and we not see t Come we ll abroad and lets obey

The proclamation made for May

And sin no more as we have done by staying
But my Corinna come lets go a Maying

9. Fair Daffodils we weep to see

You haste away so soon

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10. O yellow flowers that Herrick sung
O yellow flowers that danced and swung
In Wordsworths verse and now to me
Unworthy from this 'pleasant lea'
Laugh back unchanged and ever young
Ah what a text to us oerstrung
Oerwrought oerreaching hoarse of lung
You teach by that immortal glee

O yellow flowers

AUSTIN DOBSON To Daffodils

11. Warble O bugle and trumpet blare

Flags flutter out upon turrets and towers
Flames on the windy headland flare

Utter your jubilee steeple and spire

Clash ye bells in the merry March air

Flash ye cities in rivers of fire

Rush to the roof sudden rocket and higher
Melt into stars for the lands desire

12. Through the silver mist

Of the blossom spray

Trill the orioles list

To their joyous lay

What in all the world in all the world they say

Is half so sweet so sweet is half so sweet as May

13. The father was steel and the mother was stone
They lifted the latch and they bade him begone
But loud on the morrow their wail and their cry
He had laughed on the lass with his bonny black eye
And she fled to the forest to hear a love-tale

And the youth it was told by was Allen-a-Dale

14. Here we were called to dinner and Sir Roger ended the discourse of this gentleman by telling me as we followed the servant that this his ancestor was a brave man and narrowly escaped being killed in the civil wars for said he he was sent out of the field upon a private message the day before the battle of Worcester

15. In its ideal whole the poem represents the new love of chivalry of classical learning the delight in mystic theories of love and religion in allegorical schemes in splendid spectacles and pageants in wild adventure the love of England the hatred of Spain the strange worship of the Queen even Spensers own new love It takes up and uses the popular legends of fairies dwarfs and giants all the machinery of the Italian epics and mingles them up with the wild scenery of Ireland and the savages and wonders of the New World. . . . And Spenser adds to all his own sacred love of love his own preeminent sense of the loveliness of loveliness walking through the whole of this woven world of faerie

With the moons beauty and the moons soft face

16. It has never ceased to make poets and it will live as he said in his dedication to the queen with the eternitie of her fame.

17. And all the Gods and all the Heroes came

And stood round Balder on the bloody floor

Weeping and wailing and Valhalla rang
Up to its golden roof with sobs and cries
And on the table stood the untasted meats

And in the horns and gold-rimmed sculls the wine
And now would night have falln and found them yet
Wailing but otherwise was Odins will

And thus the father of the ages spake
Enough of tears ye Gods enough of wail
Not to lament in was Valhalla made
If any here might weep for Balders death
I most might weep his father such a son
I lose to-day so bright so loved a god

18. But hush the upland hath a sudden loss
Of quiet Look adown the dusk hillside
A troop of Oxford hunters going home

As in old days jovial and talking ride

From hunting with the Berkshire hounds they come Quick let me fly and cross

Into yon farther field Tis done and see

Backd by the sunset which doth glorify
The orange and pale violet evening sky
Bare on its lonely ridge the Tree the Tree
19.

But she

Did more and underwent and overcame
The woman of a thousand summers back
Godiva wife to that grim earl who ruled
In Coventry for when he laid a tax
Upon his town and all the mothers brought
Their children clamoring If we pay we starve

She sought her lord and found him where he strode
About the hall among his dogs alone

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