Note 6 — Early Poems (continued 3)

This passage originally ran:— Her beauty grew till drawn in narrowing arcs The southing autumn touch’d with sallower gleams The granges on the fallows. At that time, Tir’d of the noisy town I wander’d there. The bell toll’d four, and by the time I reach’d The wicket-gate I found her by herself. But Fitzgerald pointing out that the autumn landscape was taken from the background of Titian (Lord Ellesmere’s Ages of Man) Tennyson struck out the passage. If this was the reason he must have been in an unusually scrupulous mood. See his Life, i., 232.