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LYRICAL POETRYAh, calm me ! restore me !And dry up my tearsOn thy high mountain-platforms,Where morn first appears,Where the white mists, for ever,Are spread and upfurl'd ;In the stir of the forcesWhence issued the world.That is from Parting, and in the same vein are HumanLife (which was never included in the series), andIsolation the best known of Arnold's shorter lyrics.A second class is composed of those meditative lyrics,rhymed or unrhymed, which were suggested less perhapsby the Greek choruses than by similar poems ofGoethe and Heine. To this class belong the threelovely songs of Callicles in Empedocles:Far, far from here,The Adriatic breaks in a warm bayAmong the green Illyrian hills ;andOh, that Fate had let me seeThat triumph of the sweet persuasive lyre,That famous final victory,When jealous Pan with Marsyas did conspire !Not here, O Apollo !Are haunts meet for thee.But, where Helicon breaks downIn cliffs to the sea.But the earliest of these longer irregular lyrics was thedelightful The Forsaken Merman, in which the varyingmeasures are managed with a finer musical effect thanArnold always achieved. To these were added, in thevolume of 1852, The. Touth of Nature, The Touth of98