...powerfully written but very unconventional episode of Ottima and her paramour, we have this storm : — " Buried in woods we lay, you recollect ; Swift ran the searching tempest over head, And ever and anon some bright white shaft Burnt thro' the pine-tree roof — here burnt...

...Light strippings from the fan-trees, tamarisks Unrooted, with their birds still clinging to them, AH high in the wind. Even so my varied life Drifts by...screen Plunged and replunged his weapon at a venture, . • .it Feeling for guilty thee and me ; then toolce , , : •. The thunder like a whole sea overhead,",...

...came. " &c b. Hew it came ! " Otti. Buried in woods we lay, yon recollect'; Swift ran the scorching tempest overhead ; And ever and anon some bright white...burnt and there, As if God's messenger thro' the close woodscreen Plunged and replunged his weapon at a venture, Feeling for guilty theo and me : then broke...

...Buried in woods we lay, you recollect; Swift nm tho scorching tempest overhead ; And ever and auoli some bright white shaft Burnt thro' the pine-tree...here burnt and there, As if God's messenger thro' tho close wooJBcroon Plunged and replunged his weapon at • venture, Feeling for guilty theo and tne...

...Oui. Buried iu woods wo lay, you recollect ; Swift run the scorching tempest overhead ; And ever nnd anon some bright white shaft Burnt thro' the pine-tree roof— here burnt and there. As if ood'a messenger thro' the close woodscreen Plunged and replunged his weapon at а venture, Feeling...

...came. " £cb. How it came ! " Otti. Buried in woods wo lay, you recoV lect ; Swift ran the scorching tempest overhead ; And ever and anon some bright white shaft Burnt thro' the pino-treo roof— -here burnt and there. As if God's messenger thro' the close wo»dscreen Plunged...

...sinful Ottima, to regain control of her lover, is picturing the occasion of their first fond amour : Buried in woods we lay, you recollect ; Swift ran...overhead ; And ever and anon some bright white shaft Burned through the pine- tree roof, here burned and there, As if God's messenger through the close...

...splendid passage in Browning's Passes, where two guilty lovers are conversing ; and Ottima says : " Buried in woods we lay, you recollect ; Swift ran...overhead ; And ever and anon some bright white shaft Burut through the pine-tree roof, here burnt and there, As if God's messenger through the close wood...

...each, And smother up all life except our life. So lay we till the storm came. Seb. How it came ! Otti. Buried in woods we lay, you recollect ; Swift ran...roof, here burnt and there. As if God's messenger through the close wood-screen Plunged and replunged his weapon at a venture, Feeling for guilty thee...

...each, And smother up all life except our life. So lay we till the storm came. Seb. How it came ! Otti. Buried in woods we lay, you recollect; Swift ran the...some bright white shaft Burnt thro' the pine-tree roof—here burnt and there, As if God's messenger thro ? the close wood screen Plunged and replunged...