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 368 CRITICAL STUDIES And as long as grasping man Tears down others' walls that ban Passage to another's goods, Lawyers shall dwell in their woods. Blame them not, but blame thyself : They are but thy dolls of pelf: Thou didst put on their fine wigs : Thou dost feed all thine own pigs." How pungent in their truth are some of these lines ! As in the first, the fourth and fifth, and the last four stanzas. We have space for but two more very short pieces. The first is "Harebells," p. 221 : — "Wills that lie in coverts dim, Shaking from their bells a hymn That is meant for ears of wind alone : For the belfry of the spirit-world, Is most chiefly in the flowerets curled, And in heavenly stillness lies its tone. And the fairies only dream they hear, Voices those, with winds most thinnest ear. Which they put on for that express desire. But 'tis only in heavens very high That the sounds of flowers and the dews sigh, Are heard in waking certainty of fire." The Other is called "Two Verses for E.," p. 2 2 2 : — " Late in the evening, gold diffused To all the sky is given : East, West, North, South, none is refused The last good gold of heaven.