Swinburne As I Knew Him, With Some Unpublished Letters From the Poet to His Cousin, the Hon. Lady Henniker Heaton
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" STORY THE fact that Swinburne "ran wild" in his early days is now so well known that to the telling of a story of those early days there can surely be no objection. It was told me by Philip Bourke Marston, the blind poet, to whom his godmother, Dinah Mulock Craig, author of John Halifax, Gentleman, addressed her well-known poem, " Look at me with thy large brown eyes, Philip, my king." That was, of course, when Marston was a child and before he was blind. It was to him that Rossetti addressed... a lovely sonnet. " Have you heard," Marston said one day 37 38 SWINBURNE AS I KNEW HIM in the 'eighties, " why Swinburne left the Arts Club?" I replied that I had not heard why Swin- burne had left the club in question. " And you have perhaps heard that he was expelled ? " "Yes, I have so heard," was the answer. "Ah ! that comes of trying to hush things up ! " said Marston, anger coming into his beautiful but sightless eyes, and into his soft, musical, melancholy, half-lisping voice. "If there is one thing," he went on, "of which I am certain, it is that I am not long for this world.
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