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interesting and beautiful mansion, and from which issued that sweet little
volume of his which bears its name, ‘ Craigcrook Castle.’ Whether all the
poems which constitute the volume were composed there, we cannot say;
very likely not. But that many of them, and perhaps the very tenderest and
truest of them-as ‘ Craigcrook Castle,’ and the ‘ Mother’s Idol Broken ’-
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were written there, is obviously certain. And exquisiteIy fine they are, tearfully
pure in thought and beautifully cut in expression, especially the odes in
the last-mentioned poem. We have listened to few Iyres of truer touch and
tenser string than Massey‘s. What conceivably finer than this description
of the death of his infant child ?-
‘But evermore the halo
Of angel-light increased,
Like the mystery of moonlight
That folds some fairy feast.
