Campbell had a gift, too, for vivid color epithets and for vowel and alliterative word-melody. Indeed he was a master of color and verbal melody. Some of his more original and striking alliterative lines are:—

Flooding the silence in a silvern dream.

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Low flutes the lake along the lustrous sedge.

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But dawns and sunsets fell on mute dead faces.

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Belled with bees, a pollened bevy.

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Out of the murmurous moods of your multitudinous mind.