Far, far beneath in the abysmal sea,
His ancient, dreamless, uninvaded sleep
The Kraken sleepeth.
Mr. Francis MacCracken, of Belfast, was the purchaser of early works by the pre-Raphaelite artists.
[P. 290.] The Brothers. Another poem by Tennyson, 'The Sisters,' tells of the tragic love of twin girls for one man, and this duality suggested the verses to Rossetti when he found that the 'Thomas Maitland' who had attacked his work in the Contemporary Review ('The Fleshly School of Poetry') was really Robert Buchanan.
[P. 292.] Ode to Tobacco. This is in the Draytonian metre, 'Fair stood the wind for France,' but Calverley evidently had Longfellow in mind. Compare the second stanza of his Ode with the third stanza of Longfellow's Skeleton in Armour:
I was a Viking old!
My deeds, though manifold,
No Skald in song has told,
No Saga taught thee!