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 And, as an additional proof, the two following lines:

"At times her partial splendour shines Upon the grove of deep black pines,"

bear a remarkable resemblance to a stanza in "The Two Voices" (written, though not published, in 1833):

"Sometimes a little corner shines As over rainy mist inclines A gleaming crag with belts of pines."

We now come to the very remarkable poem entitled "Persia." The reader will find (on page 65) an allusion to

"the glittering sands Of bright Pactolus."

In a sonnet in the "Poems, chiefly Lyrical" not reprinted in the later editions, is the following passage:

"And sailing on Pactolus in a boat Drown soul and sense, while wistfully they strain Weak eyes upon the glistering sands that robe The understream."