Of
different
ages, like twin-sisters throve.
Tennyson
Again they shriek'd the burthen "Him!
"
Again with hands of wild rejection "Go! --
Girl, get you in! " She went--and in one month [12]
They wedded her to sixty thousand pounds,
To lands in Kent and messuages in York,
And slight Sir Robert with his watery smile
And educated whisker. But for me,
They set an ancient creditor to work:
It seems I broke a close with force and arms:
There came a mystic token from the king
To greet the sheriff, needless courtesy!
I read, and fled by night, and flying turn'd:
Her taper glimmer'd in the lake below:
I turn'd once more, close-button'd to the storm;
So left the place, [13] left Edwin, nor have seen
Him since, nor heard of her, nor cared to hear.
Nor cared to hear? perhaps; yet long ago
I have pardon'd little Letty; not indeed,
It may be, for her own dear sake but this,
She seems a part of those fresh days to me;
For in the dust and drouth of London life
She moves among my visions of the lake,
While the prime swallow dips his wing, or then
While the gold-lily blows, and overhead
The light cloud smoulders on the summer crag.
[Footnote 1: Agaric (some varieties are deadly) is properly the fungus
on the larch; it then came to mean fungus generally. Minshew calls it "a
white soft mushroom". See Halliwell, 'Dict. of Archaic and Provincial
Words, sub vocent'. ]
[Footnote 2: The Latin factus 'ad unguem'. For Crichton, a half-mythical
figure, see Tytler's 'Life' of him. ]
[Footnote 3: 1851.
Of different ages, like twin-sisters throve. ]
[Footnote 4: 1853. To breathe, to wake. ]
[Footnote 5: 1872. Have. ]
[Footnote 6: The reference is to the 'Acme' and 'Septimius' of Catullus,
xliv. --
Hoc ut dixit,
Amor, sinistram, ut ante,
Dextram sternuit approbationem. ]
[Footnote 7: 1851. That like a copper beech. ]
[Footnote 8: 1851.
garden-isles; and now we ran
By ripply shallows. ]
[Footnote 9: 1851. The rainy isles. ]
[Footnote 10: Cf. Byron, 'Don Juan', i. , xcvii.
Again with hands of wild rejection "Go! --
Girl, get you in! " She went--and in one month [12]
They wedded her to sixty thousand pounds,
To lands in Kent and messuages in York,
And slight Sir Robert with his watery smile
And educated whisker. But for me,
They set an ancient creditor to work:
It seems I broke a close with force and arms:
There came a mystic token from the king
To greet the sheriff, needless courtesy!
I read, and fled by night, and flying turn'd:
Her taper glimmer'd in the lake below:
I turn'd once more, close-button'd to the storm;
So left the place, [13] left Edwin, nor have seen
Him since, nor heard of her, nor cared to hear.
Nor cared to hear? perhaps; yet long ago
I have pardon'd little Letty; not indeed,
It may be, for her own dear sake but this,
She seems a part of those fresh days to me;
For in the dust and drouth of London life
She moves among my visions of the lake,
While the prime swallow dips his wing, or then
While the gold-lily blows, and overhead
The light cloud smoulders on the summer crag.
[Footnote 1: Agaric (some varieties are deadly) is properly the fungus
on the larch; it then came to mean fungus generally. Minshew calls it "a
white soft mushroom". See Halliwell, 'Dict. of Archaic and Provincial
Words, sub vocent'. ]
[Footnote 2: The Latin factus 'ad unguem'. For Crichton, a half-mythical
figure, see Tytler's 'Life' of him. ]
[Footnote 3: 1851.
Of different ages, like twin-sisters throve. ]
[Footnote 4: 1853. To breathe, to wake. ]
[Footnote 5: 1872. Have. ]
[Footnote 6: The reference is to the 'Acme' and 'Septimius' of Catullus,
xliv. --
Hoc ut dixit,
Amor, sinistram, ut ante,
Dextram sternuit approbationem. ]
[Footnote 7: 1851. That like a copper beech. ]
[Footnote 8: 1851.
garden-isles; and now we ran
By ripply shallows. ]
[Footnote 9: 1851. The rainy isles. ]
[Footnote 10: Cf. Byron, 'Don Juan', i. , xcvii.
