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to show us the wilderness itself and the 

 identical lodge? His wish goes in upon 

 our imagination and calls up the universal 

 longing. We have seen the wilderness 

 before ; we have helped, long ago, to build 

 that cabin. The poet has dipped his pen 

 in our heart, and has written with the color 

 of our dreams. Each one of us has his 

 special wilderness, his ideal lodge amid 

 the solitude. 



Swinburne, the most musical of con- 

 temporary poets, is a master of surprise. 

 He passes from the supremely artificial to 

 the simply natural with a suddenness and 

 completeness that fairly captivate the ima- 

 gination. Examine the two lines : 



Where tides of grass break into foam of flowers, 

 Or where the wind's feet shine along the sea. 



The upper verse is a type specimen of 

 deliberately thought out and finely 

 wrought conceit ; the lower comes into 

 the mind and the soul like an unexpected 

 glimpse of a breezy ocean rolling its white- 

 capped waves far and free. How different 

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