The year--1864--may be ascertained by comparing it with a letter addressed to F.T.Palgrave, given in Palgrave's Life, the date of this letter being Oct.

19, 1864.

Browning in the letter to Story speaks of "the last two years in the dear rough Ste.-Marie."] [Footnote 89: Was the poem _Gold Hair_?
If three stanzas were added to the first draft before the poem appeared in _The Atlantic Monthly_ the number of lines would have been 120.

Stanzas 21, 22 and 23 were added in the _Dramatis Personae_ version.] [Footnote 90: _Aristophanes' Apology_ (spoken of Euripides).] [Footnote 91: Compare with _Epilogue: Third Speaker_ the lines from _A Death in the Desert_: Then stand before that fact, that Life and Death, Stay there at gaze, till it dispart, dispread, As though a star should open out, all sides, Grow the world on you, as it is my world.
[Footnote 92: Statements by Mrs Orr with respect to Browning's relations to Christianity will be found on p.

319 and p.