[Solar-forossi] pretence of being an Olympian. He becomes a human being under a criticizing

Fri Mar 19 12:01:12 CET 2010

He cries, in the first line in _Happy England_,
and, as he remembers the peace of England, "her

woods and wilds, her loveliness," he exclaims: O what a
deep contented night The sun from out her Eastern

seas Would bring the dust which in her sight Had given its all for these! So beautiful
a spirit as Mr. de la Mare's, however, could

not remain content with idealizing from afar the sacrifices and heroism of dying men. In the long poem called _Motley_ he turns from
the heroism to the madness of war, translating his vision into a fool's song:
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