the terseness so unusual in Oriental Verse. But his Eyes are apt to
cloud: and his wife has been obliged, he tells me, to carry off even the
little Omar out of reach of them for a while. . . .

June 27. Geldestone Hall. I brought back my two Nieces here yesterday:
and to-day am sitting as of old in my accustomed Bedroom, looking out on
a Landscape which your Eyes would drink. It is said there has not been
such a Flush of Verdure for years: and they are making hay on the Lawn
before the house, so as one wakes to the tune of the Mower's
Scythe-whetting, and with the old Perfume blowing in at open windows. . .
.

July 1. June over! A thing I think of with Omar-like sorrow. And the
Roses here are blowing--and going--as abundantly as even in Persia. I am
still at Geldestone, and still looking at Omar by an open window which
gives over a Greener Landscape than yours. To-morrow my eldest Nephew,
Walter Kerrich, whom I first took to school, is to be married in the
Bermudas to a young Widow. He has chosen his chosen sister Andalusia's
Birthday to be married on; and so we are to keep that double Festival. .
. .

_Extract from Letter begun_ 3 _July_, 1857.

Monday, July 13. This day year was the last I spent with you at
Rushmere! We dined in the Evening at your Uncle's in Ipswich, walking
home at night together. The night before (yesterday year) you all went
to Mr. Maude's Church, and I was so sorry afterward I had not gone with
you too; for the last time, as your wife said. One of my manifold
stupidities, all avenged in a Lump now! I think I shall close this
letter to-morrow: which will be the Anniversary of my departure from
Rushmere. I went from you, you know, to old Crabbe's. Is he too to be
wiped away by a yet more irrecoverable exile than India? By to-morrow I
shall have finisht my first Physiognomy of Omar, whom I decidedly prefer
to any Persian I have yet seen, unless perhaps Salaman. . . .

Tuesday, July 14. Here is the Anniversary of our Adieu at Rushmere. And
I have been (rather hastily) getting to an end of my first survey of the
Calcutta Omar, by way of counterpart to our joint survey of the Ouseley
MS. then. I suppose we spoke of it this day year; probably had a final
look at it together before I went off, in some Gig, I think, to Crabbe's.
We hear rather better Report of him, if the being likely to live a while
longer is better. I shall finish my Letter to-day; only leaving it open
to add