"A MAN IS NOT A GOD, BUT THEN MOST GODLIKE BEING MOST A MAN."-ALFRED TENNYSON.

THE SLOW SWEET HOURS THAT BRING US ALL THINGS GOOD:

ALFRED TENNYSON.

"WAIT: MY FAITH IS LARGE IN TIME, AND THAT WHICH SHAPES IT TO SOME PERFECT END."-IBID.

Once likewise, in the ringing of his ears,
Though faintly, merrily-far and far away-
He heard the pealing of his parish bells;
Then, though he knew not wherefore, started up
Shuddering, and when the beauteous hateful isle
Returned upon him, had not his poor heart
Spoken with That, which being everywhere
Lets none, who speak with Him, seem all alone,
Surely the man had died of solitude.

[From "Enoch Arden," ed. 1864.]

THE SLOW SAD HOURS THAT BRING US ALL THINGS ILL."-TENNYSON.

"YET, I DOUBT NOT, THROUGH THE AGES ONE INCREASING PURPOSE RUNS,-(TENNYSON)

66 HOW DULL IT is to pause, to make an end,-(tennySON)

TO RUST UNBURNISHED, NOT TO SHINE IN USE!"-TENNYSON.

AND THE THOUGHTS OF MEN ARE WIDENED WITH THE PROCESS OF THE SUNS."-TENNYSON.

"CURSED BE THE SOCIAL WANTS THAT SIN AGAINST THE STRENGTH OF YOUTH;

SOME WORK OF NOBLE NOTE MAY YET BE DONE."-TENNYSON.

ALFRED TENNYSON.

CURSED BE THE SOCIAL LIES THAT WARP US FROM THE LIVING TRUTH."-TENNYSON.

I wind about and in and out,

With here a blossom sailing,
And here and there a lusty trout,
And here and there a grayling,

And here and there a foamy flake,
Upon me, as I travel

With many a silvery waterbreak
Above the golden gravel;

And draw them all along, and flow

To join the brimming river;

For men may come and men may go,

But I go on for ever.

"ONE EQUAL TEMPER OF HEROIC HEARTS."-ALFRED TENNYSON.

"NOT IN VAIN THE DISTANCE BEACONS.

FORWARD, FORWARD LET US RANGE-TENNYSON)

"THE DUSKY STRAND OF DEATH INWOVEN HERE (ALFRED TENNYSON)

["Had Tennyson written nothing but half-a-dozen of his best songs, his place among English poets would have been incontestably high. These, and the lyric that sparkles through "The Brook," would by themselves found a reputation as lasting as the English language. One might almost as well attempt to define the simple sensations, or to explain why a melody in music charms the ear, as to convey in words the impression any of these songs makes upon the reader. A subtle power of suggestiveness belongs more or less to all of them; they all seem to touch chords that lie deeper down than the region of clear intellectual consciousness; they present definite ideas, but they present them with such delicacy of touch as to leave the mind only half conscious of their presence,-just sufficiently conscious to be set off dreaming about them, to feel their influence without being drawn out of itself to them, while the melody of the strain keeps up the creative power of dreaming at its highest activity."-G. BRIMLEY.]

WITH DEAR LOVE'S TIE, MAKES LOVE HIMSELF MORE dear."-teNNYSON.

let the GREAT WORLD SPIN FOR EVER DOWN THE RINGING GROOVES OF CHANGE."-TENNYSON.

"THROUGH THE SHADOW OF THE GLOBE WE SWEEP INTO THE YOUNGER DAY:

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66 A PASSIONATE BALLAD GALLANT AND GAY,-(TENNYSON)

ALFRED TENNYSON.

A NEW-YEAR'S-EVE VISION OF THE FUTURE.

A MARTIAL SONG LIKE A TRUMPET'S CALL!"-TENNYSON.

BETTER FIFTY YEARS OF EUROPE THAN A CYCLE OF CATHAY."-TENNYSON.