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Updated: May 1, 2025
"Round and round the shutter'd Square" that line came back to me on my lonely beat, and with it the whole stanza, ringing in my brain and bearing in on me how tragically different from the happy scene imagined by him was the poet's actual experience of that prince in whom of all princes we should put not our trust!
And, after many warm greetings, the boat was made fast, and we climbed up along the peninsula together, in close order, like a little army. All this time there was no sign or sound about the House of Gleys to show that anyone mark'd us or noted our movements. The gate was closed, the windows stood shutter'd, as on my former visit: even the chimneys were smokeless.
It also calls attention to the fact that the spirit in which he writes, and in which he is to be read, is the spirit of open-air life and nature. "No school or shutter'd room commune with me, But roughs and little children, better than they," because the simple, unforced, unrefined elements of human nature are those out of which the poems sprang and with which they are charged.
Diabolism seemed to be a cheerful, even a wholesome influence in his life. Round and round the shutter'd Square I strolled with the Devil's arm in mine. No sound but the scrape of his hoofs was there And the ring of his laughter and mine. We had drunk black wine. I scream'd, "I will race you, Master!" "What matter," he shriek'd, "to-night Which of us runs the faster?
And for years I did not set foot even in Soho Square, because on that same night it was there that I paced and loitered, long and long, with some such dull sense of hope as a man has in not straying far from the place where he has lost something.... 'Round and round the shutter'd Square' that line came back to me on my lonely beat, and with it the whole stanza, ringing in my brain and bearing in on me how tragically different from the happy scene imagined by him was the poet's actual experience of that prince in whom of all princes we should put not our trust.
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