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It consecrated the footsteps of the approaching sun, and the hearer was borne back on its swelling current to those pure early aeons of the human race, when love was the lord of life and innocence went forth crowned with rapture. For this hymn of the primal gods was now substituted the hideous strophes and antistrophes of the grimy spirits of darkest New York.
Mr Arnold himself, as might have been expected from his previous experiments in unrhymed Pindarics, has given us strophes and antistrophes most punctiliously equivalent in syllables; but sometimes with hardly any, and never with very much, vesture of poetry about them.
The flight of Napoleon from Russia was celebrated in a "Pindaric Ode" duly distributed into strophes and antistrophes; and, when the allies entered Paris, the school put his services into requisition to petition for a holiday in honour of the event.
He projected an epic poem in blank verse, 'Cortez, or the Conqueror of Mexico, and the Inca's Daughter. He wrote part of 'Seneca, or the Fatal Bath, and 'Ariadne in Naxos; classical pieces, with choruses and strophes and antistrophes, which sadly puzzled poor Mrs.
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