PÁGE 207 209 215 216 lasted twenty-five minutes, and left more than two-thirds of our men slain or wounded. LXVIII Sir Henry Lawrence took charge of Lucknow as Resident in March 1857. The spread of rebellion in June confined him to the defence of the city, where he died of wounds on July 4. Brigadier Inglis, in succession, then defended Lucknow for twelve weeks, till it was relieved on September 25 by General Havelock, to whom Sir James Outram, (who accompanied as a volunteer), had generously ceded the exploit. LXX Cauteretz is a lovely valley in the French Pyrenees; the visit here commemorated was in 1830. In Memoriam. Upon the difficulty of framing this selection I have already said a few words: (Note on p. 146). In no part of my task, I fear, are readers more likely to complain of omissions which the length prescribed for the volume has rendered inevitable. To aim at choosing on grounds of comparative excellence would have been unsatisfactory where excellence is so uniformly maintained, and a choice so made must have had a fragmentary character. My wish, in the main, has therefore been to select first the songs most directly setting forth the personal love and sorrow which inspired this great lyrical elegy, and then those, or some of those, in which the same motive-theme is developed in figures, or connected with the aspects of nature and of religious thought. Arthur Henry, son to Henry and Julia Maria Hallam (by birth Elton of Clevedon Court), was born Feb. 1, 1811; educated at Eton and Cambridge; died suddenly Sep. 15, 1833, at Vienna; borne to England by sea, and buried 3 Jan. 1834 in Clevedon Church above the Severn. LXXI St. 7 How much of act: the Freewill which PAGE 216 219 222 225 sustains and animates life demands action from us imperatively. LXXII St. 4 Where the kneeling hamlet: before the altar of some village church. seaweed. St. 5 tangle: Severn about LXXVII St. 2 The Wye joins the His saltem accumulem donis, et fungar inani "To the memory of Henry Fitzmaurice "Hallam: Born Aug. 31, 1824: died at Siena "Oct. 25, 1850. "In whose clear and vivid understanding, "sweetness of disposition and purity of life, an "image of his elder brother was before the eyes "of those who had most loved him. Distinguished "like him by early reputation and by the attach"ment of many friends, he was, like him, also "cut off by a short illness in a foreign land. His father, deeply sensible of the blessing in "having possessed such children as are com"memorated in these tablets, submits to the righteous Will of Heaven which has ordained "" him to be their survivor." St. I the barren bush: leafless: the sea-blue bird of March: the kingfisher, noticed by the author in North East Lincolnshire as then coming up inland. The sea which adorns the coast of our southern counties, Cornwall especially, emerald interchanged with ultramarine, answers to the epithet here given. LXXXIV St. I maze of quick: every tangled thorn buds forth. PAGE 226 LXXXV St. the crescent prime: takes the hue of advancing Spring. 227 230 232 234 LXXXVI St. I Doors: of No. 67, Wimpole LXXXVII Refers to the shiftings of land and sea XCI St. 2 the field of time: as having no future ment. 66 XCVI St. 2 in closest words: in a strictly dogmatic argument: a tale: the Gospels.-P. 233, St. 2 those wild eyes: Natives of the Pacific islands. Life: Figures for the XCVIII St. 2 Time mad agony of desperation. 238 CIV St. I horned flood: winding :-horns are borne commonly by the old river-personifications. St. 3 orient star: any rising star is here intended. 239 cvII St. I Day: the Fifteenth of September.— P. 240, St. 2 coming care: winter. 243 CXI St. 4 the Christ that is to be: The Second Advent. An extract from a letter which unites the names and the poetry of Arthur Hallam and Alfred Tennyson will be the fittest ending to these imperfect notes. A. H. Hallam, The Lodge, Malvern, 14 Sep. 1829; to W. E. Gladstone, at Mr. Gaskell's, Thornes House, Wakefield. "I am glad you liked my queer piece of work about Timbuctoo [subject of the Cambridge English Verse Prize for 1829]. I wrote it in a sovereign vein of poetic scorn for any. body's opinion, who did not value Plato, and Milton, just as much as I did. The natural consequence was that ten people out of twelve laughed, or opened large eyes; and the other two set about praising highly, what was plainly addressed to them, not to people in general. So my vanity would fain persuade me, that, like some of my betters, I 'fit audience found, tho' few. My friend Tennyson's poem, which got the prize, will be thought by the ten sober persons afore mentioned twice as absurd as mine: and to say the truth, by striking out his prose argument the Examiners have done all in their power to verify the concluding words 'All was night.' The splendid imaginative power that pervades it will be seen through all hindrances. I consider Tennyson as promising fair to be the greatest poet of our generation, perhaps of our century.' |
