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 There is besides (page 63) an allusion to the lotos-stem, which recals some lines in the "Lotos-Eaters."

In the poem entitled "Egypt" are these lines:

"The first glitter of his rising beam Falls on the broad-based pyramids sublime."

The words italicized occur again in "A Fragment," by Alfred Tennyson, printed in the "Gem" in the autumn of 1830:

"Yet endure unscathed Of changeful cycles, the great Pyramids Broad based amid the fleeting sands."

The piece called "Midnight" contains a graphic description of the fen country, near which Tennyson was born. There is, we think, sufficient internal evidence to prove it to be his. In the next poem specified, "Time: an Ode," we should also rely upon the general style, full of that immature grandiloquence which characterizes much of Tennyson's boyish work. The lines "On a Dead Enemy," we assign to the Laureate