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TENNYSONIANA.
upon the same grounds as those adduced by Mr. Leicester Warren.
The "Lines on hearing a description of the Scenery of Southern America" remind us of the poem "To E. L. on his Travels in Greece;" and the verses "On the Moonlight shining upon a Friend's Grave" recal inevitably the sixty-seventh section of "In Memoriam."
The poem of "Switzerland" contains the following stanza:
"O when shall Time
Avenge the crime,
And to our rights restore us;
And bid the Seine
Be choked with slain
And Paris quake before us?"
Turning to the hundred and twenty-seventh section of "In Memoriam" we find the same image about the Seine reproduced:
"Even tho' thrice again
The red fool-fury of the Seine
Should pile her barricades with dead."
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