Show A CONTRAST Plain Mr Gladstone and tho now My I ord Tennyson each one nearly four core years of ago have lately attracted Icntion by adverse public utterances cnnjson is the poetlaureate of Great ritaln ennobled by tho Queen for his lyming flattery of her majesty j Glad one Is the representative commoner of tho realm ennobled by unanimous ac laim of all good people in all tho earth Tho poet i with his back to tho setting sun lives only in the liadow of a hopeless cynicism and cuts his spleen in halting erse 111111 misanthropic spirit The grand old man with faith in God and tho future responds to the aspirations of ad anclng humanity and with a strong xrm and an eloquent voice leads the van of the fighting and conquering column One is wrapped about with tho cero neiits of tho grave which lies open lit I his feet i tho other as tho result o in active life in the pursuance of noblo ends stands as a demigod in tlio converging con-verging light of two worlds Tennyson has mng his harp upon tho willows and with mutlled and averted face hear only tho croak of tho raven over a mpless sincursed world i while Gladstone Glad-stone listens to tho jocund songs of bird welcoming tho dawn of a better era It is a sad thing to see an old man with a lead soul inn dying body |