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 poetical inventions. The friend has gone, and the brooding memory, in a sort of dream, mingles the true nature of the friend with all sorts of possibilities, fancies—the play of the mind, which seems arbitrary and casual in this poem, being really an accompaniment of the main thought, which is of Waring and his genius. The passage that brings out the music is where Iphigenia comes to the poet's mind. He is thinking of Russia—Russia makes him think of the Crimea, the Tauric Chersonese—then of Iphigenia in Tauris—and the verse changes from its loose variety into the sounding 'square' verse—the old heroic measure—:

It would be pleasant to go on, to quote from Rudel, to repeat again the songs In a Gondola: