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Show TENNYSON. I. Shakespeare and Milton what third emblazoned emblaz-oned name Shall J f jj of after-aues link to these His who, beside tho wild encircling seas, Was England's voire, her voice with on acclaim. ac-claim. For three score ye rn; whose word of praise was fame, Whose Huora nave pause t man's Iniquities. II. What strain was his In that Crimean war! A tingle rail in battle; a low breath, J'lalntlve and sweet, a'love the fields of death! Bo year I y ye:tr the music rolled afar. Eroin Kuxiue waates to flowery Kaudahvr, Hearing the laurels of the cypress wreath. III. Others shall have their little space of time. Their proper niche and bust, then fada away Into the darkness pouts of a day; Hut th u. O builder of enduring rhyme. Thou shult not pass: Thy fame in every clime On earth shall live where Saxon speech has sway. IV. Waft me this verse across the winter sea, Through llirht and dark, through mist and Hon ltri(7 Mleet. O winter winds, and lay It nt his feet; Through the poor gift betray my poverty, At his feet lay it; It may chance that he Will Hud no gift, where reverence is, unmeet, un-meet, Thcms Bailey Aldrleh. |