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How lamentably the _art_ of versification is neglected by most of the / poets of the present day! -- by Lord Byron, as it strikes me, in particular, / among those of eminence for other qualities. Upon the whole, I think the / part of Don Juan in which Lambro's return to his home, and Lambro himself, / are described, is the best, that is, the most individual, thing in all I / know of Lord B. 's works. The festal abandonment puts one in mind of / Nicholas Poussin's pictures.[1]
[Footnote 1: / Mr. Coleridge particularly noticed, for its classical air, the 32d stanza / of this Canto (the third): -- / "A band of children, round a snow-white ram, / There wreathe his venerable horns with flowers, / While, peaceful as if still an unwean'd lamb, / The patriarch of the flock all gently cowers / His sober head, majestically tame, / Or eats from out the palm, or playful lowers / His brow, as if in act to butt, and then / Yielding to their small hands, draws back again."