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Pippa Passes. Its lyrics have been unsurpassed, for birdlike spontaneity and a rare high music, by any other Victorian poet: its poetic insight is such as no other poet than the author of
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The Ring and the Book and
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The Inn Album can equal. Its technique, moreover, is superb. From the outset of the tremendous episode of Ottima and Sebald, there is a note of tragic power which is almost overwhelming. Who has not known what Jakob Boehme calls
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though here, it may be, there is an unconscious reminiscence of the tenser and more culminative cry of Othello,
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Still more profound a touch is that where Ottima, daring her lover to the
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says, with affected lightsomeness,
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This dusty pane might serve for looking-glass, and simultaneously exclaims, as she throws them rejectingly from her nervous fingers,
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Three, four--four grey hairs!
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Is it so you said A plait of hair should wave across my neck? No--this way.