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This _thousand-featured_ splendour-- _Thousand-featured without flaw!_-- At last, his vision reveling On her ravishing mouth, _he saw_ "_It closed_; and then remember'd That she spoke not.--'Stay to dine, And name her wishes after'-- To these sounds he could assign A sense, for still he heard them, Echoing silvery and divine." Sir Hubert having reveled on her ravishing mouth, and having, by a strong effort of intelligence, mastered the meaning of the very occult proposition which issued therefrom, namely, that the lady would "stay to dine, and name her wishes after;" and, moreover, having seen--"It closed"--he shortly afterwards saw it opened, for the purpose of eating his hawk, which, as the reader knows, he had felt himself under the necessity of killing for the fair widow's entertainment. We pass over the relation of the circumstances which, as the lady discovers, render her mission fruitless, and which are detailed in a strain of the most vapid silliness--and proceed to the interview which brings about the union of Mabel and Sir Hubert. The latter, some time after these occurrences, pays a visit to the castle. "Half reclined Along a couch leans Mabel, Deeply musing in her mind Something her bosom echoes. O'er her face, like breaths of wind "Upon a summer meadow, Serious pleasures live; and eyes _Large always, slowly largen, As if some far-seen surprise Approach'd,--then fully orb them, At near sound of one that sighs_." Her eyes having recovered their natural size, a good deal of conversation ensues, the result of which is given in the following stanza, which forms a fit conclusion for the story of such a passion-- "Her hands are woo'd with kisses, They refuse not the caress, Closer, closer, ever closer, Vigorous lips for answer press! _Feasting the hungry silence Comes, sob-clad, a silver 'yes.'_" There are several smaller poems interspersed throughout the volume. Mr Tennyson has his "Claribels," and "Isabels," and "Adelines," and "Eleanores"--ladies with whom he frequently plays strange, though, we admit, by no means ungraceful vagaries; and Mr Patmore, as in duty bound, and following the imitative bent of his genius, must also have his Geraldine to dally with. The two following stanzas of playful namby-pambyism, are a specimen of the manner
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