Printed in Professor Jebb’s Primer of Greek Literature, Macmillan & Co., 1877, p. 60. One of Tennyson’s quantitative experiments. “My father confessed that he believed he knew the quantity of every word in the English language except, perhaps, ‘scissors.’ We asked him to make a Sapphic stanza in quantity, with the Greek cadence. He gave us this” (lines quoted. Life, vol. ii., p. 231)