and
O! that a man might know
The end of this day’s business, ere it come;
But it sufficeth that the day will end
And then the end is known ...
and
She should have died hereafter;
There would have been a time for such a word....
The quality of which we are speaking in Arnold was, rather, a certain sudden tempering of the diction in poetry, with magical result. It was a quality that he more than any other poet of his time recovered from the seventeenth century, the age of poets like Vaughan and Marvell who could lift us to the height of poetic enjoyment with such prose-habited devices as—
Where no rude foot e’er trod,