...not be right to omit Robert Browning's beautiful tribute to the memory of the poet : Memorabilia. ' Ah, did you once see Shelley plain, And did he stop...memory I started at — My starting moves your laughter 1 I crossed a moor with a name of its own, And a use in the world, no doubt, Yet a hand's-breadth of...

...time he has tested his first plough, And studied his last chapter of St. John. MEMORABILIA. 1. An, did you once see Shelley plain, And did he stop and...speak to him again ? How strange it seems, and new ! 2. But you were living before that, And you are living after, And the memory I started at — My...

...Browningites by nature. The week passed, as weeks will, the lights were turned out, the voices silenced. But : Ah, did you once see Shelley plain, And did he stop and speak to you ? And did yon speak to him again ? How strange it seems, and new 1 But you were living before that, And you are...

...this time he has tested his first plough, And studied his last chapter of St. John. MEMORABILIA. 1. AH, did you once see Shelley plain, And did he stop...speak to him again ? How strange it seems, and new ! 2. But you were living before that, And you are living after, And the memory I started at — My...

...to ground Than a new one, straight to the selfsame mark, I shape me, — Ever Removed ! MEMORABILIA. AH, did you once see Shelley plain, And did he stop...and speak to you ? And did you speak to him again 1 How strange it seems, and new ! But you were living before that, And you are living after, And the...

...fills up the blank. Writing of Shelley, the English poet of whom he speaks with most reverence — "Ah, did you once see Shelley plain, And did he stop and speak to you?" — he is led to treat of poetry in general, and of the relation in which a great poet stands to his...

...he stop and speak to yon? And did yon speak to him again? How strange it oeeiuu, and new 1 "But yon were living before that, And you are living after,...memory I started at — My starting moves your laughter ! " I crossed a moor, with a name of its own And a nse in the world no donbt ; Yet a hand'B-breadth...

...to ground Than a new one, straight to the selfeame mark, I shape me, — Ever Removed ! MEMORABILIA. AH, did you once see Shelley plain, And did he stop...I started at, — My starting moves your laughter ! I crossed a moor with a name of its own And a use in the world no doubt, Yet a hand's-breadth of...

...ever." " Achilles' wrath, to Greece the direful spring Of woes unnumbered, " etc. Euawlwrrj II..:. "Ah, did you once see Shelley plain, And did he stop and speak to you ?" " A murderer, and a villain ; A slave, that is not the twentieth part of the tithe Of your precedent...

...There, that is our secret : go to sleep ! You will wake, and remember, and understand. MEMORABILIA. AH, did you once see Shelley plain, And did he stop...speak to him again? How strange it seems, and new ! II. But you were living before that. And also you are living after , And tfie memory I started at...