Irish Literary and Musical Studies
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Clare, and raging against it furiously for forty-eight hours, had just died away. Scarcely a breath of air was stirring, and the August sky was intensely blue. Yet the great Atlantic billows, gathering out of the sea distance at ever increasing intervals, still boomed and smoked against the cliffs the last sullen thunders of oceans retreating insurgency. But the proverbial ill wind that had kept a...
MoreClare, and raging against it furiously for forty-eight hours, had just died away. Scarcely a breath of air was stirring, and the August sky was intensely blue. Yet the great Atlantic billows, gathering out of the sea distance at ever increasing intervals, still boomed and smoked against the cliffs the last sullen thunders of oceans retreating insurgency. But the proverbial ill wind that had kept all but the most venturesome spirits close prisoners in the lodges of Kilkee had blown the storm-loving Tennyson over from Foynes, where he and his son Hallam were the guests of Lord and Lady Monteagle. So far back as September 1842 he had written to Aubrey de Vere from Killarney :I have been to your Ballybunion Caves, but could not get into the finest on account of the weather. But in one of these caves, so his son now records, he made the following lines, which occur in Merlin and Vivien :S odark a forethought rolled about his brain, As on a dull day in an ocean cave The blind wave feeling round his long sea-hall In
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