His form was clothed in purple fine And costly linen rare.

"And ye shall wear no silken gown, No maid shall bind your hair; The yellow broom shall be your gem, Your braid the heather rare.

Ils sont bien rares! LE MARQUIS, à Hortense. Vous l'entendez.

"It was a fountain of Nepenthe rare, Whence, as Dan Homer sings, huge pleasaunce grew.

And I bend my head and list, For I think I see a slender spar Gleam through the golden mist; And I fancy I hear the sound Of wind in a silken sail, And an odor rare from Eastern ground, Floats in on the languid gale.

The air Was heavily laden with the odour rare Of deep, wind-shaken fir trees, breathing sweet, As through the wood, the maids, with silent feet, Went treading needled sward, in light and shade, Now bright, now dim, like flow'rs that gleam and fade, And ever bloom and ever pass away ...

This much, however, one may assert, that the shell was weaker, the kernel stronger, crime more frequent, want of principle rarer.

And there, in its sweet seclusion, I built me a mansion fair, With many a classic statue And Eastern relic rare, And volumes, whose precious pages Hold all that the wise have said, The latest among the living, The greatest among the dead.

Quoique cette confusion soit rare, je me suis cru permis de la corriger et de rapprocher ce qui devoit être réuni et ne l'étoit pas.

* WILD FLOWERS (1840) Alone I strode where the broad Rhine flowed, The hedge with roses was covered, And wondrous rare through all the air The scent of the vineyards hovered.