Arnold also illustrated his doctrine in some hexameters of his own, which have not usually been regarded as a happy experiment. They run in part as follows: "Truly, yet this time will we save thee, mighty Achilles! But thy day of death is at hand; nor shall we be the reason-- No, but the will of heaven, and Fate's invincible power. For by no slow pace nor want of swiftness of ours Did the Trojans obtain to strip the arms from Patroclus; But that prince among gods, the son of the lovely-haired Leto, Slew him fighting in front of the fray, and glorified Hector. But, for us, we vie in speed with the breath of the West-Wind, Which, men say, is the fleetest of winds; 'tis thou who art fated To lie low in death, by the hand of a god and a mortal." (_Ib._, p. 234.) Tennyson evidently viewed with small respect these various efforts to render Homer in English hexameters. See his lines beginning: "These lame hexameters the strong-wing'd music of Homer! No--but a most burlesque barbarous experiment." (_In Quantity: Hexameters and Pentameters_.) Compare the amusing lines of Walter Savage Landor: "Askest thou if in my youth I have mounted, as others have mounted, Galloping Hexameter, Pentameter cantering after, English by dam and by sire; bit, bridle, and saddlery, English; English the girths and the shoes; all English from snaffle to crupper; Everything English about, excepting the tune of the jockey?.... Seldom my goosequill, of goose from Germany, fatted in England, (Frolicsome though I have been) have I tried on Hexameter, knowing Latin and Greek are alone its languages. We have a measure Fashioned by Milton's own hand, a fuller, a deeper, a louder. .... Peace be with all! but afar be ambition to follow the Roman, Led by the German uncombed and jigging in dactyl and spondee, Lumbering shapeless jackboots which nothing can polish or supple. Much as old metres delight me, 'tis only where first they were nurtured, In their own clime, their own speech: than pamper them here, I would rather Tie up my Pegasus tight to the scanty-fed rack of a sonnet." (_English Hexameters_, in _The Last Fruit off an Old Tree_.) In like manner Mr. Swinburne says: "I must say how inexplicable it seems to me that Mr. Arnold, of all men, should be a patron of English hexameters. His own I have tried in vain to reduce by scansion into any metrical feet at all; they look like nothing on earth, and sound like anapests broken up and driven wrong.... And at best what ugly bastards of verse are these self-styled hexameters! how human tongues or hands could utter or could write them except by way of burlesque improvisation I could never imagine, and never shall." (_Essays and Studies_, p. 163.) From this condemnation Mr. Swinburne excepts only the hexameters of Dr. Hawtrey, "but that is simply a graceful interlude of pastime."