...Till deliverance come With the Spring-time, — so agonized Saul, Drear and stark, blind and dumb. Then I tuned my harp, — took off the lilies We twine...Where the long grasses stifle the water Within the stream 's bed : How one after one seeks its lodging, As star follows star Into eve and the blue far...

...belong to the majority of this collection. Many of its lines are fluent and musical, with a flow and music such as this : Then I tuned my harp, — took...one after one, So docile they come to the pen-door, tffl folding be done. They are white and untorn by the bushes, for lo, they have fed "Wbere the long...

...tells, in the same glorious rushing rhythm, how David poured from his harp " first the tune all the sheep know as, one after one, so docile they come to the pen-door," then the " help-tune of the reapers, their wine-song, when hand presses hand, and eye quickens eye...

...King Saul. We can picture the lad in the dark presence of the violent king, fearlessly singing — " The tune all our sheep know, as one after one, So docile they come to the pen door, till folding be done. They are white and untorn by the bushes, for lo, they have fed "Where...

...challenging comparison with the verse of Spenser or of Keats : — "And I first played the tune all out sheep know, as, one after one, So docile they come to the pen door, till folding be done. They are white and untorn by the bushes, for lo, they have fed Where...

...till deliverance come With the spring-time,— so agonized Saul, drear and stark, blind and dumb. v. Then I tuned my harp, — took off the lilies we twine...first played the tune all our sheep know, as, one They are white and untom by the bushes, for lo, they have fed Where the long grasses stifle the water...

...deliverance come With the spring-time, — so agonized Saul, drear and stark, blind and dumb. r 5' f Then I tuned my harp, — took off the lilies we twine...white, and untorn by the bushes, for lo, they have "od Where the long grasses stifle the water within the stream's bed ; 4tJ And now one after one seeks...

...drear and stark, blind and dumb. V. Then I tuned my harp, — took off the lilies we twine round the chords Lest they snap 'neath the stress of the noontide...lo, they have fed Where the long grasses stifle the watet within the stream's bed; And now one after one seeks its lodging, as star follows star Into eve...

...till deliverance come With the spring-time, — so agonized Saul, drear and stark, blind and dumb. v. Then I tuned my harp, — took off the lilies we twine...those sunbeams like swords ! And I first played the ttme all our sheep know, as, one after one, So docile they come to the pen-door till folding be done....

...Saul, drear and stark, blind and dumb. ft. Then I tuned my harp, — took off the lilies we twin« round its chords Lest they snap 'neath the stress of the noontide — those sunbeams like swords I And I first played the tune all our sheep know, as, one after one, So docile they come to the pen-door,...