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Rh (Surely there is a pent-up beauty in these lines, and a veiled depth of feeling, exceedingly rare. But again:)

We have left ourselves no space to give entire any prominent specimen of Mr. Meredith's lyrical genius. But after so many shreds, scraps, and sundries, dislocated and dismembered at our own will and pleasure, it is due to him to give some one "copy of verses" unbroken and unmangled—and in giving the following, it is also due to him to add, that our choice of it has been controlled by the "law of limitation" in a periodical's letter-press. If little, it has, however, the merit of being (what Hamlet calls) a "picture in little:"