Inversions should be dismissed. The most forcible lines are the most direct. O'er is, however, too often used by her in place of over, and 'twas for it was. We see instances here. The versification throughout, is unusually good.
Nothing can excel And birds and streams with liquid lull Have made the stillness beautiful . . . .
And sealed them on thy lips, my love, Beneath the apple-boughs . . . . The syllable dy is not full enough to sustain the rhyme. All these endings, liberty, property, happily, and the like, however justified by authority, arc grossly objectionable. They, in the old routine, rarely err. She often surprises, and always delights, by novel, rich and accurate combination of the ancient musical expressions.