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The boys are at marbles, if it is muddy enough, or one-old-cat, or pom-pom-peel-away, with the normal percentage of them in reboant tears that is to say, one in three.
The vocabulary is wilfully and tastelessly unusual, "abele" rhymed "abeel" for "poplar"; American forms such as "human" for "humanity" and "weaken" for a neuter verb; fustianish words like "reboant"; awkward suggestions of phrase, such as "droppings of warm tears." But all these things, and others put together, are not so fatal as her extraordinary dulness of ear in the matter of rhyme.
'Thro' utter dark a full-sail'd skiff, Unpiloted i' the echoing dance Of reboant whirlwinds; and to the question, 'Why not believe, then? we have as answer a simile of the sea, which cannot slumber like a mountain tarn, or 'Draw down into his vexed pools All that blue heaven which hues and paves' the tranquil inland mere." The poet longs for the faith of his infant days and of his mother
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