Note 7 — Early Poems (continued 4)
Reading edition
In the Selection published in 1865 Tennyson here inserted a couplet which he afterwards omitted:— Another answer’d: “But a crime of sense!” “Give him new nerves with old experience.”
Reading edition
In the Selection published in 1865 Tennyson here inserted a couplet which he afterwards omitted:— Another answer’d: “But a crime of sense!” “Give him new nerves with old experience.”