To take thee at thy word? But mark me, sir, Like an avenging spirit I'll follow thee- Even unto death. Before those whom thou lovest-Before all Rome I'll taunt thee, villain,—I'll taunt thee, Dost hear? with cowardice-thou wilt not fight me? Thou liest thou shalt ! (Exit. CASTIGLIONE Now this indeed is just! Most righteous and most just, avenging Heaven! PRIVATE reasons-some of which have reference to the sin of plagiarism, and others to the date of Tennyson's first poems-have induced me, after some hesitation, to re-publish these, the crude compositions of my earliest boyhood. They are printed verbalim— without alteration from the original edition-the date of which is too remote to be judiciously acknowledged. (182) E. A. P. POEMS WRITTEN IN YOUTH SONNET.-TO SCIENCE. SCIENCE! true daughter of Old Time thou art! How should he love thee? or how deem thee wise, Albeit he soared with an undaunted wing? Hast thou not torn the Naiad from her flood, The Elfin from the green grass, and from me The summer dream beneath the tamarind tree? |