2

My lady's shoe

Of golden or of varied hue.

3 To and again, backwards and forwards;

4

To and again, forwards and backwards.

Everything I possess, if you me can guess.

5 A coin and a plant, and a man of high rank.

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XXVII.

"So oft hast thou echoed the deep sigh of sadness, That even in mirth it will steal from thee still."

"O, she's warm!

If this be magic, let it be an art

Lawful as eating."

"I saw him stand

High on a heap of slain, from spur to plume
Red as the rising sun with heathen blood."

3 "Redeemer of dark centuries of shame—
The friend of Petrarch-hope of Italy."

4 "The pines of Mænalus, the vocal grove,
Are ever full of verse and full of love;
They hear the hinds, they hear their god complain,
Who suffer'd not the reeds to rise in vain."

XXVIII.

"Beware! beware!

For who goes up that winding stair,
Can ne'er come down again."

1 This stream "shall be to pitying hearts
A name more sad than Yarrow."

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2 A king of Portugal.

3 "Thou bring'st, gay creature as thou art,
A solemn image to my heart."

XXIX.

"As this dark mould sends upwards, and out of its very heart, the rare Persian rose,-so does my first spring out of my second,-and the darker my second the purer and brighter my first."

1 "Angel of life! thy glittering wings explore
Earth's loneliest bounds, and ocean's wildest shore."

2 Now, while the way-worn cripple, faint-
Scarce can move his limbs so weary;-
Speeds o'er the main this northern saint,
To heal his pious votary.

3 "Nymph of a fair, but erring line."

4 "The traitor who hath dragg'd the majesty of mercy into action."

XXX.

"No habitant of earth, thou art

—we believe in thee."

An unseen seraph,—

While my second-o'ershadowing the heart,
Destroyeth, as the Upas tree."

1 "While the heart rejoices

Let its rapture peal !"

2 "Light as any wind that blows,

So fleetly did she stir,

The flow'r she touched on, dipt and rose,
And turn'd to look at her."

3 "Sweet tenant of the shade."

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"So day by day, she pass'd
In either twilight, ghost-like, to and fro
Gliding, and every day she tended him,
And likewise many a night."

XXXI.

"Silent and unstrung

The minstrel harp is emblematic hung."

"Fancy's child

Warbling his native wood-notes wild."

2 "Dark as winter was its flow."

3 A family celebrated in Italy during the middle ages.

4 "Cattle court the zephyrs bland,

Where the streamlet wanders cool

Or, with languid silence stand

Midway in the watery pool."

XXXII.

"On five low hills this city rose; no walls, No ramparts closed it round; its battlements And tow'rs of strength, were men, high-minded men."

"Great source of art and science! whose immortal

name

Stands foremost in the glorious roll of fame."

1 Rise, rise and lift thy rosy head

From thy coral-paven bed,

And bridle in thy headlong wave,

Till thou our summons answer'd have."

2 "Oft in the stilly night,

Ere slumber's chain hath bound me,

Fond mem'ry brings the light

Of other days around me."

3 "The tree for nothing ill."

4 They played me then a bitter prank :
At length I play'd them one as frank;
For time at length sets all things even-
And if we do but watch the hour,
There never yet was human power
Which could evade, if unforgiven,
The patient search and vigil long
Of him who treasures up a wrong."

5 Who trained "King Arthur up in virtuous lore?"

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"Now perish, Troy!' he said,

And rush'd to fight"

XXXIII.

"Where now shall I go, poor, forsaken, and blind? Can I find one to guide me, so faithful and kind ?” 1 Eternal monument of many a vanish'd name.

2 Sang ladye-love and war, romance and knightly fame.

3 Dying-still watched the casement of his beloved dame.

XXXIV.

"From leaf to leaf, conduct the virgin light, Star of the earth, and diamond of the night."

1 A pleasant sensation, a sign of health and happiness. 2 A well-known Pontiff.

3 A land, rich in rare and beautiful productions.

4 One of the Annelidæ.

2 A place most dear to English hearts. 3 The other side of anything.

4 A precious stone.

5 A tool.

6 What I fear you must be, if you fail to guess this.

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XXXVI.

"Bards sublime

Whose distant footsteps echo thro' the corridors of time."

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The earth withheld her fruits, my fields grew bare, Till one vast desert frown'd throughout the year."

2 "That olde man of pleasing words had store,
And well could file his tongue, as smooth as glass."
3 "To whom the double blessing did belong
With Moses' inspiration, Aaron's tongue."

4"Aerial forms in this most classic vale
Glance thro' the gloom, and whisper in the gale."
"The great brand
Made lightnings in the splendour of the moon."

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XXXVII.

A stately building, and the artist who adorned it.

1 "His brows with roses and with myrtles bound (So should desert in arms be crowned)."