that unpublished poem, never quite finished, the last lines of which were taken to enrich the epigram on Mist. The title here is—
FOG
Dull water-spirit and Protean god,
Descended cloud, fast anchored to the earth,
That drawest too much air for shallow coasts;
Thou ocean branch that flowest to the sun,
Incense of earth, perfumed with flowers;
Spirit of lakes and rivers, seas and rills,
Come to revisit now thy native scenes;
Night thoughts of earth,—dream drapery,
Dew cloth and fairy napkin;
Thou drifting wind-blown meadow of the air.
Page xxix.—On Love and Friendship, several poems and fragments appear in the newly discovered MSS. They show the same ideality and hyperbole which appear in the passages already published on these topics. For example, we discover the following lines, entitled The Friend,—not dated, but evidently as early as 1847:—
THE FRIEND
The great Friend
Dwells at the land's end,—
There lives he
Next to the Sea;
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