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TENNYSONIANA.
"Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere."
In stanza 1,
"The topmost linden gather'd green "
is the reading of the earlier editions.
"A Farewell." Unaltered.
"The Beggar Maid." Probably suggested by the line in Shakespeare, "Romeo and Juliet" (act ii. sc. 1).
There is an old ballad on the subject in the first volume of Percy's "Reliques."
"The Vision of Sin." One verbal alteration in the second line of the fifth section.
There are two additional lines towards the end in the volume of Selections:
"Another answer'd, 'But a crime of sense?
Give him new nerves with old experience,'"
Give him new nerves with old experience,'"
"The Skipping Rope." Omitted in all editions subsequent to the sixth (1850).
"Move eastward, happy earth, and leave."
Line 9:
"Ah, bear me with thee, lightly borne,"
in the earlier editions.
