. Sidney Lanier at Rockingham Springs; where and how the "Science of English verse" was written; a new chapter in American letters. againeastward, down the long vista of the en-croaching hills, and I could still see anirregular panel of the distant blue mountain,with the blue sky above it. Mr. Hopkins drew up in front of a smallhouse. PAGE 41 SIDNEY LANIER This, said I, is Laniers cottage, Isuppose. No; this is the one from the verandaof which he delivered the charge to theknights in the tournament. I wondered how many of those youngfellows of 1879, as they sat their horses andshot sidelong gl
. Sidney Lanier at Rockingham Springs; where and how the "Science of English verse" was written; a new chapter in American letters. againeastward, down the long vista of the en-croaching hills, and I could still see anirregular panel of the distant blue mountain,with the blue sky above it. Mr. Hopkins drew up in front of a smallhouse. PAGE 41 SIDNEY LANIER This, said I, is Laniers cottage, Isuppose. No; this is the one from the verandaof which he delivered the charge to theknights in the tournament. I wondered how many of those youngfellows of 1879, as they sat their horses andshot sidelong glances at the girls they hopedto crown, had realized what a far-soundingvoice was speaking to them, bringing themface to face with a chivalrous past inthe need of the calling future. As for La-nier himself, I imagine he must havethought, for one thing, of the stirring lineshe had written in The Tournament adozen years before: Bright shone the lists, blue bent the skies,And the knights still hurried amain To the tournament under the ladies the jousters were Heart and Brain. A hundred yards farther on we came PAGE 42. Rockingham Springs in Twilight.
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