Or sunbeams shone by many an Alpine fountain,
Fed by the waters of the forest stream;
Or glacier-glories in the rock-girt mountain,
Where they so often fed the poet's dream;
Or else was mingled the rough billow's glee
With cries of petrels on a sullen sea.
Again on page 393 of the same editions will be found Miss May
Morris's beautiful water colour of Kelmscott Manor, the country-house
jointly occupied by Rossetti and William Morris in which takes place
what has been called 'the crucial scene in _Aylwin_.'
APPENDIX II
So many questions about the characters depicted in _Aylwin_ were put
to the editor of _Notes and Queries_ that he suggested that a key to
the novel would he found acceptable. Some weeks after this suggestion
was made there appeared in that journal (7th June 1902) the following
contribution by Mr. Thomas St. E. Hake, an intimate friend of
Rossetti, and of other leading characters of the story. The
republication of it here has been kindly sanctioned by Mr.
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