and "the red fool-fury of the Seine" [`I. M.', cxxvii.].
He attaches great importance to the outside arrangements of society
for upholding and advancing the individual. He would "make Knowledge
circle with the winds", but "her herald, Reverence", must

"fly
Before her to whatever sky
Bear seed of men and growth of minds."

He has a great regard for precedents, almost AS precedents.
He is emphatically the poet of law and order. All his sympathies
are decidedly, but not narrowly, conservative. He is, in short,
a choice product of nineteenth century ENGLISH civilization;
and his poetry may be said to be the most distinct expression
of the refinements of English culture -- refinements, rather than
the ruder but more vital forms of English strength and power.
All his ideals of institutions and the general machinery of life,
are derived from England. She is

"the land that freemen till,
That sober-suited Freedom chose,
The land where, girt with friends or foes,
A man may speak the thing he will;

A land of SETTLED GOVERNMENT,
A LAND OF JUST AND OLD RENOWN,
WHERE FREEDOM BROADENS SLOWLY DOWN
FROM PRECEDENT TO PRECEDENT:

Where faction seldom gathers head,