2. Good Intentions First Baron Houghton, FRS Richard Monckton Milnes Milnes, Richard Monckton Metadata research and editing DVPP Project Team Fralick Kaitlyn University of Victoria Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry Project Victoria, BC, Canada

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 Included under the general title Ethical Sonnets (360-1) and signed R. M. Milnes. (SK) Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine 47 293 360 Fair thoughts of good, and fantasies as fair ! font-size: 100%; margin-bottom: 1.25em; text-transform: uppercase; font-size: 75%; letter-spacing: 0.075em; margin-bottom: 1.25em; margin-left: 6em; word-spacing: 0.1em; font-variant: small-caps; letter-spacing: 0.05em; display: none; display: inline; display: block; font-size: 1rem; width: 36em; Tweaked hybrid sonnet nested lgs based on new documentation (and confirmed by AC). CSS remediation, verified. Created pom_11450_incid_poem rendition to reset font-sizes. Added useful rendition elements in anticipation of CSS reworking. Extracted small-caps style into rendition element using XSLT. Re-organized change elements in descending date order. Assigned dominant rhyme-scheme value to poem div using automated XSLT. Removed catRef with target="dvpp:illustrationNone", now obsolete. Document is proofed. Set status to 'proofed'. Altered spacing. Moved long strings of CSS to the tagsDecl.
2. Good Intentions. Fair thoughts of good, and fantasies as fair ! Why is it your content to dwell confined In the dark cave of meditative mind, Nor show your forms and colours otherwhere ? Why taste ye not the beautiful free air Of life and action ? If the wintry wind Rages sometimes, must noble growth be pined, And fresh extravagant boughs lopt off with care ? Behold the budding and the flowering flowers, That die, and in their seed have life anew ; Oh ! if the promptings of our better hours With vegetative virtue sprung and grew, They would fill up the room of living Time, And leave the world small space to nourish weeds of crime.