III, 73.
[“&” perhaps written carelessly for “at.”]
“Their decay and sudden flight from frost.”
“Their decay and sudden flight from the frost.”
III, 98.
“To own that death itself must be.”
“To think that,” etc.
III, 128.
These comparisons are here carried no further than “The Sensitive Plant,” except that there is a canceled verse of Shelley’s “Curse” against Lord Eldon for depriving him of his children,—a verse so touching that I think it should be preserved. The verse beginning—
“By those unpractised accents of young speech,”