the mind of the author of Christabel, whose poems are marked by delicacy. The effects of the apparition of her mother, supposed to be seen by Christabel in a vision, are thus described : What if her guardian spirit 'twere, Here terminates the first canto. The passage from this sleep and the reappearance by day-light of Geraldine, has always been considered a master-piece. The second part begins with a moral reflection, and introduces Sir Leoline, the father of Christabel, with the following observation, on his rising in the morning: Each matin bell, the Baron saith! These words Sir Leoline first said When he rose and found his lady dead. Many a morn to his dying day. After a popular custom of the country, the old bard Bracy is introduced. Geraldine rises, puts on her silken vestments-tricks her hair, and not doubting her spell, she awakens Christabel, The same who lay down by her side- As dreams too lively leave behind. Christabel then leaves her couch, and having offered up her prayers, she leads fair Geraldine to meet the Baron.-They enter his presence room, when her father rises, and while pressing his daughter to his breast, he espies the lady Geraldine, to whom he gives such welcome as 66 'Might beseem so bright a dame !" But when the Baron hears her tale, and her father's name, the poet enquires feelingly Why wax'd Sir Leoline so pale, Alas! they had been friends in youth; And to be wroth with one we love, Each spake words of high disdain To free the hollow heart from paining- The marks of that which once hath been. Sir Leoline gazed for a moment on the face of Geraldine, and the youthful Lord of Tryermaine again came back upon his heart. He is then described as forgetting his age, and his noble heart swells with indignation. He then affectionately takes Geraldine in his arms, who meets the embrace 66 Prolonging it with joyous look, Which when she viewed, a vision fell Upon the soul of Christabel, The vision of fear, the touch and pain! Thou gentle maid! such sights to see?) Geraldine then appears to her in her real character, (half human only,) the sight of which alarms Christabel. The Baron mistakes for jea lousy this alarm in his daughter, which was induced by fear of Geraldine, and had been the sole cause of her unconsciously imitating the hissing sound:" 66 Whereat the Knight turn'd wildly round, And nothing saw, but his own sweet maid This touch, this sight passed away, and left in its stead the vision of her guardian angel (her mother) which had comforted her after rest, and having sought consolation in prayer, her countenance resumes its natural serenity and sweetness. The Baron surprised at these sudden transitions, exclaims, "What ails then my beloved child?” Yet the Baron seemed so captivated by Geraldine, as to "deem her a thing divine." She pretended much sorrow, and feared she might have offended Christabel, praying with humility to be sent home immediately. 66 “ Nay! Nay-by my soul !" said Leoline. "Ho!-Bracy, the bard, the charge be thine! "Go thou with music sweet and loud "And over the mountains haste along. He is desired to continue his way to the castle of Tryermaine. Bracy is thus made to act in a double capacity, as bard and herald: in the first, he is to announce to Lord Roland the safety of his daughter in Langdale Hall; in the second as herald to the Baron, he is to convey an apology according to the custom of that day, "He bids thee come without delay, "With all thy numerous array; "And take thy lovely daughter home, "And he will meet thee on the way, "White with their panting palfrey's foam, "When I spake words of fierce disdain, |