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Where Claribel low-lieth
The breezes pause and die,
Letting the rose-leaves fall:
But the solemn oak-tree sigheth,
Thick-leaved, ambrosial,
With an ancient melody
Of an inward agony,
Where Claribel low-lieth.

II.

At eve the beetle boometh
Athwart the thicket lone:
At noon the wild bee hummeth
About the moss'd headstone:

At midnight the moon cometh,
And looketh down alone.
Her song the lintwhite

i.e. linnet.

swelleth,
The clear-voiced mavis dwelleth,
The callow throstle lispeth,
The slumbrous wave outwelleth,
The babbling runnel crispeth,
The hollow grot replieth
Where Claribel low-lieth.

University of Virginia Library

CLARIBEL. All these ladies were evolved, like the camel, from my own consciousness. “Juvenilia” were published in 1830. John Stuart Mill reviewed the volume in the London Review (July 1835); Leigh Hunt in the Tatler; and Professor Wilson (Christopher North) in Blackwood.

A MELODY.

I.

II.

CLARIBEL.

All these ladies were evolved, like the camel, from my own consciousness.

“Juvenilia” were published in 1830. John Stuart Mill reviewed the volume in the London Review (July 1835); Leigh Hunt in the Tatler; and Professor Wilson (Christopher North) in Blackwood.