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The poet's versatility was displayed in the appearance with these records of "weird seizures", of the Irish dialect piece To-morrow, the popular Spinster's Sweet-Arts, and the Locksley Hall Sixty Years After. The old fire of the versification is unabated, but the hero has relapsed on the gloom of the hero of Maud.
After a little while he said: "Miss L , my son says I am to read to you," and added, "I will read whatever you like." He read some of "Maud," "The Spinster's Sweet-Arts," and some "Enoch Arden." His voice, as Miss L noticed, was melodious and full of change, and quite unimpaired by age.
He thoroughly enjoyed reading his "The Spinster's Sweet-Arts," and when he was reading "Enoch Arden" he told Miss L to listen to the sound of the sea in the line, "The league-long roller thundering on the reef," and to mark Miriam Lane's chatter in "He ceased; and Miriam Lane Made such a voluble answer promising all."
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