:
Its loveliness increases; it will never
Pass into nothingness; but still will keep
A bower quiet for us, and a sleep
Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.
--KEATS

Sunset with its rosy feet
Stains the grasses low and sweet;
And the shadow-beeches softly fall
Across the meadows, dark and tall;
O fold away
The dusty day,
Sweet nightfall, in thy curtains gray.
--JAPANESE

Now fades the last long streak of snow,
Now bourgeons every maze of quick
About the flowering squares, and thick
By ashen roots the violets blow.
Now rings the woodland loud and long,
The distance takes a lovelier hue,
And drowned in yonder living blue
The lark becomes a sightless song.
--TENNYSON

A cloud lay cradled near the setting sun;
A gleam of crimson tinged its braided snow;
Long had I watched the glory moving on
O'er the still radiance of the lake below.
Tranquil its spirit seemed, and floated slow!
Even in its very motion there was rest;
While every breath of eve that chanced to blow
Wafted the traveller to the beauteous west.
--WILSON

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Transcriber's Notes:

Obvious punctuation errors repaired.

Page 32, the first paragraph under ALLUSIONS contains a sentence
fragment: "If these allusions." As no meaning could be ascertained, it
was retained intact.

The OE-ligature is denoted in this work by brackets [OE].

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