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 drawing his pen through one poem, and revising another, till it is scarcely recognizable as the juvenile production from which it sprung.

All this while, too, section after section of "In Memoriam" is being painfully and slowly elaborated; and at last comes out of the furnace, like the refiner's silver, seven times purified. The world, however, did not see it until 1850.

But at length, in 1842, after many and repeated calls for a new edition of the former volumes, which had long been out of print, appeared: