The final stanza of a Breviary hymn is called the doxology ([Greek: doxa] praise,

A stanza from one of his lyrics may be appropriately citedRemembrance, dated 1821: 'Lilies for a bridal bed, Roses for a matron's head, Violets for a maiden dead, Pansies let my flowers be.

The "Complaint of Ninathoma" (first stanza in particular) is the best, or only good, imitation of Ossian I ever saw, your "Restless Gale" excepted.

But in the former, note how the major key of gladness changes in the third stanza to the minor key of aspiration, which has always some sadness in it; a sadness which deepens to grief in the next stanza at the consciousness of unfitness for Christ's company, but is lifted by hope almost again to gladness in the last.

An example of the formal element of change which appeared, consists in the substitution of blank verse and the Spenserian stanza for the classical couplets of the French school.

In those days even a pun might be a serious thing: witness the play in the last stanza on the words son and sunnot a mere pun, for the Son of the Father is the Sun of Righteousness: he is Life and Light.

Receive him absolutely without omission and compromise, follow his whole outpouring, stanza by stanza, and line by line, from the very commencement to the very end, and he is capable of being tiresome.

I shall give one or two stanzas out of the rather long poem, to lead up to the change in the last.

Hence, and from the other circumstance, its association in the second stanza with the triune sonorous Cerberus.

" But how to get the first line of the last stanza into five syllables I cannot think.

A stanza like this seems almost as simple as breathing: "The moving moon went up the sky, And nowhere did abide; Softly she was going up, And a star or two beside.

"In like manner, the exquisite lines of Mr Rogers, On a Tear, might have warned the noble author of these premises, and spared us a whole dozen such stanzas as the following: Mild charity's glow, To us mortals below, Shows the soul from barbarity clear; Compassion will melt Where the virtue is felt.

On "speaking day" you started out bravely and recited the first stanza without mishap.

But in the former, note how the major key of gladness changes in the third stanza to the minor key of aspiration, which has always some sadness in it; a sadness which deepens to grief in the next stanza at the consciousness of unfitness for Christ's company, but is lifted by hope almost again to gladness in the last.

Here, however, Drayton shows himself more skilful in dealing with a lyrical stanza than most of his fellow imitators.

Afterwards come some stanzas about an echo repeating a cuckoo's voice....