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Quite out of fashion, like a rusty nail
In monumental mockery."^[1]

"Locksley Hall," says a well-known writer in Fraser, "bristles with verbal alterations which every careful reader of Tennyson knows."^[2] I have found only five.

Here are four lines from different parts of the poem, as they stood in 1842:

"'Tis the place, and round the gables, as of old, the curlews call."

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"Slides the bird o'er lustrous woodland, droops the trailer from the crag."

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"Let the peoples spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change."

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"Thro' the shadow of the world we sweep into the younger day."

1. Communicated by a correspondent.
2. A. K. H. B., in "Fraser's Magazine," February, 1863, p. 213, § "Concerning Cutting and Carving."