58), in "As the Gloaming Shadows Creep" (op.

56), in "Fair Springtide"-- which represent his ripest utterances as a song writer.

If he is not, in this particular form, quite at his happiest, he is among the foremost of those who have kept alive in the modern tradition the conception of the song as a medium of lyric utterance no less than of precise dramatic signification.
[16] No.VII.of the "Eight Songs," op.

47.
[17] Op.

58, No.