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Moses. Alexander Smith, the author of Dreamthorp, himself a poet of no mean order, and who has written a neglected novel named 'Alfred Haggart's Household,' which is as sweet as anything that has appeared since the 'Vicar of Wakefield,' says of England's Poet-Laureate, 'Mr. Tennyson does not imitate so much as he is imitated, but even in his ear there have lingered notes from the other side of the Atlantic.' Then quoting the last stanza of the famous garden song in Maude—

he observes, 'in these lines a quick ear detects Poe's music ringing like a silver bell.'

With much greater reason than Alexander Smith, we might ask if the lines most often quoted from the Poet-Laureate's Tithonus—and the whole piece itself in all its beauty—is not an echo of Alfred de Vigny's Moise? Let the reader judge. Sings the Poet-Laureate,

and again,

Now hear the poet of France,

And again,