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And David enlarges further on the great and various difficulties in the way of him who aspires to become a master-singer. A "bar," let him know, has manifold parts and divisions, full difficult to master the law thereof!... And then comes the "after-song," which must not be too short, nor yet too long, and must contain no rhyme already used in the foregoing stanzas.
The later publications of the Laureate, in his own distinctive field of verse, embrace "The Lover's Tale" , "Ballads and other Poems" , "Tiresias and Other Poems" , "Locksley Hall Sixty Years After" , "Demeter and Other Poems" , and "The Death of Oenone, Akbar's Dream, and Other Poems," in the year of the Poet's death . In these various volumes there is much admirable work and many tuneful lyrics in the old charming, lilting strain, with not a few serious, thoughtful, stately pieces of verse, "the after-glow," as Stedman phrases it, "of a still radiant genius.... His after-song," continues this fine critic, "does not wreak itself upon the master passions of love and ambition, and hence fastens less strongly on the thoughts of the young; nor does it come with the unused rhythm, the fresh and novel cadence, that stamped the now hackneyed measure with a lyric's name.
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