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LATER POEMS.
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"Cornhill" of the following month. Both of these poems have been slightly altered.

"The Sailor Boy" appeared in a volume of Miscellanies by various authors, entitled "The Victoria Regia," published by Emily Faithfull, Christmas, 1861.[1]

The "Attempts at Classic Metres in Quantity" appeared in the "Cornhill Magazine" for December, 1863.[2]

"A Selection from the Works of Alfred Tennyson," published early in 1865, contained the following new poems:

  1. Even this little piece has been altered.
  2. It is noteworthy that some lines of the passage translated (from the end of the 8th "Iliad") are imitated also in an early poem:
    ὡς δ᾽ ὁτ᾿ ἐν ουρανῷ ἄστρα φαενὴν ἀμφὶ σελήνην
    φαίνετ᾿ ἀριπρεπέα ὅτε τ᾿ ἔπλετο νήνεμος αἰθὴρ,
    ἔκ τ᾿ ἔφανον τᾶσαι σκοπιαὶ, καὶ πρώονες ἄκροι,
    καὶ νάπαι οὐρανόθεν δ᾽ ἄρ ὑπεῤῥάγη ἄσπετος αἰθὴρ,
    πάντα δέ τ᾽ εἴδεται ἄστρα.
    Iliad, viii. 551-555.

    "The revelling elves, at noon of night,
    Shall throng no more beneath thy boughs,
    When moonbeams shed a solemn light
    And every star intensely glows."
    The Oak of the North.
    ("Poems by Two Brothers," p. 218.)