is in the strong style of the sixteenth century.
"I think the 'Dead Men's Holiday' martial and glorious.
"And the keen air stung all their lips like wine,
is the kind of line when Nature has taken the pen into her own hand.
"What an exquisite stanza is this in 'The Summer's Queen':
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"You sow the fields with lilies—wake the choir Of summer birds to chorus of delight; Yours is the year's deep rapture—yours the fire That burns the West, and ushers in the night. |
"The line
"Yet done with striving, and foreclosed of care,
in the sonnet entitled 'At Rest' is as good as anything of Drayton's. You know his sonnet,