"I hate the dreadful hollow behind the little wood";


with the keynotes of colour and of desolation struck; the lips of the
hollow "dabbled with blood-red heath," the "red-ribb'd ledges," and
"the flying gold of the ruin'd woodlands"; and the contrast in the
picture of the child Maud -


"Maud the delight of the village, the ringing joy of the Hall."


The poem abounds in lines which live in the memory, as in the vernal
description -


"A million emeralds break from the ruby-budded lime";


and the voice heard in the garden singing


"A passionate ballad gallant and gay,"


as Lovelace's Althea, and the lines on the far-off waving of a white
hand, "betwixt the cloud and the moon." The lyric of


"Birds in the high Hall-garden