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TENNYSONIANA.
And, as an additional proof, the two following lines:
"At times her partial splendour shines
Upon the grove of deep black pines,"
bear a remarkable resemblance to a stanza in "The Two Voices" (written, though not published, in 1833):
"Sometimes a little corner shines
As over rainy mist inclines
A gleaming crag with belts of pines."
We now come to the very remarkable poem entitled "Persia." The reader will find (on page 65) an allusion to
"the glittering sands
Of bright Pactolus."
In a sonnet in the "Poems, chiefly Lyrical" not reprinted in the later editions, is the following passage:
"And sailing on Pactolus in a boat
Drown soul and sense, while wistfully they strain
Weak eyes upon the glistering sands that robe
The understream."
