Against its fountain upward runs
The current of my days.
Not less felicitous have been the additions made from time to time. Thus in Audley Court the concluding lines ran:—
The harbour buoy,
With one green sparkle ever and anon
Dipt by itself.
But what vividness is there in the subsequent insertion of
“Sole star of phosphorescence in the calm.”
between the first line and the second.
So again in the Morte d’Arthur how greatly are imagery and rhythm improved by the insertion of
Across the ridge, and paced beside the mere,
between
Then went Sir Bedivere the second time,