“And I wouldn’t say that he didn’t.

“Shelley used to live in this house.”

She was a very old lady,

I never saw her again.

HUGH SELWYN MAUBERLEY

(LIFE AND CONTACTS)

“Vocat æstus in umbram”

Vocat æstus in umbram

Nemesianus Ec. IV.

ODE POUR L’ELECTION DE SON SEPULCHRE

I

FOR three years, out of key with his time,

F

He strove to resuscitate the dead art

Of poetry; to maintain “the sublime”

In the old sense. Wrong from the start—

No, hardly but, seeing he had been born

In a half savage country, out of date;

Bent resolutely on wringing lilies from the acorn;

Capaneus; trout for factitious bait;

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