BETA
Upon Seeing Miss Fanny Kemble in Juliet.
Italian passion, sudden, deep, intense,1
With maidhood’s simply fearless innocence,2
With the chaste dignity that marriage gives,3
Blended in poesy’s ethereal hue ; —4
Such the sweet Juliet Shakspeare’s genius drew—5
The genius such that now in Fanny lives.6
M. M.