became

Then, ere the silver sickle of that month 100

Became her golden shield, I stole from court

With Cyril and with Florian unperceived,

Houghton), who united the poet and the politician, and was the

biographer of Keats ; and Richard Chenevix Trench, who became

Dean of Westminster in 1856, and Archbishop of Dublin in 1864.

To do much more than note the titles of his principal works

since he became Poet-Laureate, the prescribed limit of this

sketch will not allow. In 1855 appeared Maud, which, though

And spikenard bruised for a burnt-offering;

Even she between whose lips the kiss became

As fire and frankincense;

But those three following men

Became as men raised up among the dead;

Great glad mouths open and fair cheeks made red

As the burning of fire;

And our souls became sorely afraid

For our soul's desire.

As I throttled his windpipe, the purr

Of his breath with the waltz became blurred.

Lies with crossed legs and embroidered band.

The page's name became a brand

For shame. He was buried in crawling sand,