1842.]
OF TENNYSON.
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printed with "Locksley Hall,"[1] which do not appear in the published edition of 1842, or in any subsequent one, but which did appear in 1887, forty-five years subsequently, after they had been known to me for some time, in the sequel entitled "Locksley Hall Sixty Years After."
From whence could these two stanzas be derived if not from an early set of proofs or small privately-printed issue communicated to the Procters before publication? In the Catalogue of Mr. Frederick Locker-Lampson's collection is an autograph copy of the poem of "The Talking Oak," containing two- ↑ Following upon the line:The two stanzas are as follows:"And our spirits rush'd together at the touching of the lips."It is quite clear from Mrs. Procter's note that these two stanzas (though not actually published until 1887) were written, and printed, at the same time as the rest of the original peem."In the Hall there hangs a painting: Amy's arms are round my neck,—
Happy children in the sunlight, playing on the ribs of wreck.
In my life there dwells a picture: she that clasp'd my neck is flown:
I am left within the shadow, sitting on the wreck alone."
