...we now proceed to give. Our first quotation explains and vindicates the conception of the poem : I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the grief...dull narcotics, numbing pain. In words, like weeds, I '11 wrap me o'er, Like coarsest clothes against the cold ; But that large grief which these enfold...

...shall see Him as He is, but then we shall be like Him. Now we must see Him " through a glass darkly." " For words, like nature, half reveal And half conceal the soul within." We could not bear to see him face to face. He must veil his Godhead or we should die. To favoured men...

...statement that he writes not to utter his grief, but to divert the mind from the sense of pain.. " I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the grief...dull narcotics, numbing pain. In words, like weeds, I '11 wrap me o'er, Like coarsest clothes against the cold ; But that large grief which these enfold...

...darkened eyes ; With morning wakes the will, and cries, " Thou shall not be the fool of loss." T. 1 SOMETIMES hold it half a sin To put in words the grief...dull narcotics, numbing pain. In words, like weeds, I '11 wrap me o'er, Like coarsest clothes against the cold ; But that large grief which these infold...

...nameless trouble cross All night below the darken'd eyes ; With morning wakes the will, and cries, IV. 1 SOMETIMES hold it half a sin To put in words the grief...within. But, for the unquiet heart and brain, A use in measur'd language lies ; The sad mechanic exercise Like dull narcotics, numbing pain. In words, like...

...below the darken 'd eyes ; With morning wakes the will, and eric?, IV. 1 SOMETIMES hold it half a siu To put in words the grief I feel ; For words, like...within. But, for the unquiet heart and brain, A use in measur'd language lies ; The sad mechanic exercise Like dull narcotics, numhing pain. In words, like...

...And how the breast was soothed, and how the head, And all his hourly varied anodynes, remind one of But, for the unquiet heart and brain, A use in measured...exercise. Like dull narcotics, numbing pain. ' In Memoriam,' v. "!F NOT THE ROSK" (11 S. vii. 349). " Je ne suis pas la rose, mais j'ai vecu pres d'elle,"...

...nameless trouble cross All night below the darken'd eyes ; With morning wakes the will, and cries, I SOMETIMES hold it half a sin To put in words the grief 1 feel ; For words, like nature, half reveal And half conceal the Soul within. But, for the unquiet...

...darken' d eyes ; With morning wakes the will, and cries, ' Thou shalt not be the fool of loss.' V. I SOMETIMES hold it half a sin To put in words the grief...dull narcotics, numbing pain. In words, like weeds, I '11 wrap me o'er, Like coarsest clothes against the cold ; But that large grief which these enfold...

...— " I sometimes hold it half a sin To put iu words the grief 1 feel ; For words, like nature, hnlf reveal And half conceal the soul within. " But, for...sad mechanic exercise, Like dull narcotics, numbing paia " In words, like weeds, I'll wrap me o'er, Like coarsest clothes against the cold ; But that large...