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Rh while above all the others I prize the two lines—

Yet while I thus distinguish, I reprove myself for separating them from the wave of five stanzas, of which they form the crest:

That I think is more successful poetry than any in Browning's Rabbi Ben Ezra or in Tennyson's Locksley Hall; nay, more successful than any produced by those great poets after the first glorious flush had paled on the forehead of their youthful genius. Is it not well described by Shelley's line— 146